C64x Unboxing videos

[eliyahu]

By the way, here's a fun quote I found in an earlier thread:

("This month" being May. )

guys, i think we should lay off CUSA at this point.  it's fairly obvious that barry and perhaps a few workers are assembling the C64x boxen by hand at their florida offices.  it's going to take a while to fulfill all of the orders, and shipping those with the highest profit-margins allows them to cover their costs earlier rather than later.

the 'VIC' series is all done overseas, but it looks like the C64x is slapped together from parts ordered from suppliers.  until they have the ability to outsource assembly -- like they outsource development of any kind -- you ain't gonna see much in the way of volume.  i mean this is all done as cheaply as possible.  the manual is a reprint of the ubuntu docs with a one-page addition printed up by a third-party.   that's also probably why the much bally-hooed television adverts haven't aired yet.

let's give 'em a break for a while.  they aren't fooling people any more, so let's let this one go.

-- eliyahu

[eliyahu]

... What IS COS?!?!?  Or even COS 1.X?  I've seen the name splashed around and that it is a skinned Linux distro.  Is 2.x an Amiga themed skin instead of a C64 themed skin?

What is the big deal about COS?  I asked you this before and you completely ignored me...

'commodore' OS is ubuntu with every free software package they can possibly throw in.  it also has custom icon, wallpaper, and GTK theme changes.

that's it.

and 'commodore' OS 2.0 will not be anything special, either.  no AROS, no L4, no QNX, no nothing.  hell, a bunch of the changes are being done by their 'CTO' for goodness sakes.

@thread

we've seen claims of huge sales, 10.000s strong, big-box retail outlets, etc., etc.  a company that has that kind of sales and supply chain does not hand-assemble computers from a low-rent space in a commercial zone in florida.  i try to give randy, bazza, and the rest some 'benefit of the doubt,' but the never-ending chain of bollocks, bluster, and bull just keeps adding up.

when the C64x appears in best buy, i'll believe it. maybe. :lol:

-- eliyahu

[eliyahu]

Face it Dammy the hype & BS is over, CUSA failed big time and in another years time they will be no more, perhaps it's time to start looking for the next big thing to champion cos the great CUSA RollerCoaster ride has peaked and it's all downhill from here, next stop the dodgems...

I'll give CUSA & you this much Dammy you sure did try and convince the world that all this was real and the next big thing and well done for at least giving it a go with a passion, but it's yesterdays news now and all the posts in the world aint gonna change that and if the Amiga stuff comes along then it would be simpler just to re-run these threads and swap C64x for Amigax in the thread titles...

actually it probably has been successful.  bazza's gonna make money out of this, and that's all he cares about.  everything he's said over the past year shows his idea of success is monetary, nothing more or less.

and the C64x has been a nice creation.  they could have skimped on the details, like the keyboard, but they didn't.  and that's not too bad.

i think where their mouths got them in trouble was suggesting they were more than a fly-by-night operation of three guys trying to shift cheap, chinese tat.  slapping a sticker on a case, shoving components into it that you had no design input into, and marking it up, does not an amiga make.  no matter what flavor of amiga you follow, that ain't it.

let bazza make his money.  we'll go on with our hobby.  spammy's posts are about as relevant as someone who is a packard bell aficionado posting about his resurrected brand around here.  i don't think he gets it: no one gives a flying [redacted]. since he's only doing it to wind people up, he should just stick to the sewer at moobunny.

-- eliyahu