CUSA Amiga range will cost up to $25,000

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Either way we are watching a train wreck.

I still think this is a smokescreen and he is just waiting to unleash the Commodore ZXX Spectrum.

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You'll also note there's no reviews by any reputable review websites on their current offerings.  Some dude posting a 10 min video of an "unboxing" on YouTube isn't a review, boys.

I would think for a company shouting "WE ARE TOP QUALITY!  OUR KEYBOARDS MAKE CLICKY NOISES!" they would have had the confidence to be shipping one to every review site on the 'net.  Just a boatload of overheating, non working wifi stories on their own forums, seemingly.

They shipped product, which is more than I figured would happen, tbh.

I think I have mentioned it on this forum before. But pretty everything I have read about CUSA is regurgitated articles that seem to be copy and pasted between sites and blogs. Even the tweets are just spewed out by retweet bots.

I only recall a couple of actual articles that were original and they all said that they wouldn't be buying one.

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Remember..

Commodore ZXX Spectrum. The extra X means extra cash.

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Remember workbench? Well forget about it because we can't use the name any more. So get ready for Commodore OS. Linux that we are gonna skin to me you feel like we aren't rehashing it for our purposes.

Remember Amiga? Well we kind of have the rights to use the name in order to sell you expensive crap. So get ready for our range of $2,000 - $20,000 "prosumer" computers. Aimed at giving you nothing that Dell and others already can for cheaper!

And coming soon. Our all new range of Commodore Amstrad CPC computers. Aimed at making sure your childhood memories are well and truly mangled for the rest of your lives!

Order now and we will give you your very own Dammy. Who will argue the toss with you on our forums when something doesn't go right. Absolutely free.

Now that's 30 million well spent.

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Barry is taking his bat and ball home.

While I appreciate your heartfelt concerns for CUSA, it's marketing and pricing plans, cost analysis and other areas of the business, this is not the forum for addressing your concerns and comments. It has been posted previously that Commodore-Amiga.org is a forum to explore and discuss our products, applications, member help and others areas of interest that would help the members enjoy and utilize our products. It IS NOT a forum to ridicule, second guess, deride and generally troll, with the intent to scutinize the business decisions of the company. There are many other forums that have attained a high degree of expertise in this area, and my suggestion is to join them in their discussions. This forum is visited by not only potential customers, but others who may now, or in the future, have an interest in developing relationships with our company. Fell free to call, PM, email or telepathically connect with me anytime. But the continued banter regarding what you either don't like, don't agree with, can't afford, etc etc, has no purpose or effect on what finally becomes reality. If this is not the product you want, don't buy it. If you can't afford it, don't buy it. If you feel that strongly about your ability to create, then create. But please, enough is enough already. I got your point.

http://www.commodore-amiga.org/en/forum/27-commodore-usa/8551-phone-call-with-barry?limit=15&start=60#8697

Awww bless.

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Maybe what bothers me more it's their attitude:
That is written by a staff member. Notice the usage of '....' and '???'

The guy even tells Barry what he wants from the Amiga range and Barry just shoots him down and completely ignores what he says. I really hope that the site is caching on google on a regular basis. Cos all this stuff will be recorded.

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It makes me laugh that he is quick to call others trolls yet he is just as responsible for the vitriol himself. I am enjoying watching all this as it's certainly more entertaining than X-Factor or Strictly Come Dancing combined. He has an unnatural knack for twisting what ever someone says on it's head, spinning it then spewing it back out to try and make them look like they are in the wrong. All this could easily be avoided by simply giving people more info. But we all know that this would probably be more made up than the stuff on the Jeremy Kyle show. His latest rantings only go to show that he really can't handle criticism. I hate to imagine what he would be like with a company like Apple, where every time they release something new there is an army of people waiting to rip it to shreds.

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It's the stuff on their facebook page too. The images of them jetting away and the rather odd message about keeping jobs in America. Yet he went to South America and Mexico for a factory.

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Never looked at it that way. Suppose Barry does like to think outside the box. Before slapping a boing ball logo on it.

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HOW DARE YOU SLAG OFF STRICTLY COME DANCING BITCH :madashell:

I did and I will continue to as long as there is breath in my body. Lets be honest we all know strictly and thew few follow on shows after is the only life we will see from these guests

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well they have revealed the case on their new website.

http://web.************.net/amiga

Didn't take me long to track down the case.

http://www.origenae.co.kr/en/htpc_s16t.htm

So that what "expensive" case he is using.

I found a review of the smaller version of the case.

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Origen_ae/S10V/7.html

Give them their dues. It's a nice looking case. Shame about the bad photoshop with the Amiga badges.

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The thing is I have been looking at these cases and yes they retail for a lot. But I found a complete system for £1,200. (http://www.media-centre-pc.co.uk/media-centers/touchscreen-range/) and the case on it's own is around £600 (http://www.awd-it.co.uk/origen-ae-s16t-home-theatre-media-centre-case-7-touchscreen-silver.html). What seems to make these expensive is the touchscreens embedded into them.

The big question is if they will say these are place holder images. If so then it's a lot of effort for just place holders lol.

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http://www.commodore-amiga.org/en/forum/3-suggestion-box/8536-under-construction-new-cusa-website?limit=15&start=15#8723

You have to click the link to their new website.

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Goto http://commodore.net/ then click Amiga.

My favorite part is the HD-DVD drive, guess someone did not know they stopped being made a few years ago.

My local gamestation sells the XBOX 360 HD DVD for £20 and £30 with 10 movies lol. So maybe Barry has bought a load and repurposed them. :roflmao:

The cases were been sold by Origen from about 2008ish. So the blu-ray and hd DVD war was probably still going. Love the bad photoshopping on the images though.

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It doesn't mention if it's touchscreen is capacitive or resistive. My money would be on resistive. Though it can apparently support a resolution of 1920x1080. The screen is supposed to be used as a media controller. So you can have windows media centre running on it while you watch something on the main monitor. If this is the case they have gone for, which it does look likes there is a cheaper one with a LCD screen instead, then I can imagine they would try to leverage some sort of gimmicky professional functionality in to it.