New Commodore Computer

[rkauer]

That's not even a new machine! It is called "zero footprint PC" and the reliability is not good.

 It is made from a company called Cybernet.

[BigBenAussie]

Yes, I've also known about this Cybernet Keyboard PC for many years.
The pictures on the Commodore site are the same photos I've seen before and don't even have the logo. It's a pity they don't pre-install AROS or provide it on SD card, perhaps someone should communicate with this Commodore company about it, or a dealer could sell it with the option. What is interesting is that they mention that they can help you get MacOSX on it.....cruisin' for a bruisin' from Apple (or some notoriety).

What is a pity, is that it is not the one shown at CES a couple years back which was a far prettier keyboard, closer to a C128/A500(Amiga fantasy) than this one. I wish they had chosen that one for a Commodore PC.

(Let's see if I can find it, and post the picture as I've done before. It was red if I recall)
Edit: Found CeBIT 2007!!!!


I don't think the one they have chosen is too ugly though. With a Commodore logo on top and AROS support.....I might even have considered it if I was in the market for a PC. I might still as the higher end seems as powerful as what I have in my tower. Actually....maybe we should embrace this for official AROS support, and make this THE OFFICIAL AROS pc. IMHO some of the lack of appeal surrounding AROS is due to its lack of brand recognition....For those Amigans for which brand appeal is important, you can't do much better than Commodore branding can ya? I know it is not the same company.....but at least we can reminisce? This still runs rings around any of the PPC alternatives both present and future, in a form factor I love. I'd wait and see what the Daddy comes up with regarding an Amiga keyboard first though.

[jj]

It doesn;t have wireless support either and loads of legacy ports people just dont want/need/use anymore

[TheDaddy]

The case I have designed for the SAM/Natami looks better :-) HA!

Soon more pictures!

[BigBenAussie]

@TheDaddy

I thought yours might look better. Love to see it.

I said before, that you should approach ACube, now I think you should also approach Commodore.

[gertsy]

I saw it ages ago on a medical it site.

Crapola.

Probably scored a lot of dumped kit to get rid of.  Let's pillage the commordore logo for a few cents more.

Shame shame shame.

[warpdesign]

It's a rebranded computer for Commodore. Too bad it's really ugly and has useless legacy stuff as stated here...

[BigBenAussie]

@jj

It doesn;t have wireless support either and loads of legacy ports people just dont want/need/use anymore

So it has more legacy ports than you need.....ummm... so what? As long as it has USB ports why would I care?
As for wireless, this isn't a laptop. All my desktop PCs have wireless N on USB, so why should this be any different?

Edit: Hey they have Mini PCI Express, Internal Wireless 802.11b/g/n as an option!!!

[scuzzb494]

Obviously not a Commodore computer... more a badge only product. Shame, cus I got quite excited. Trouble with these computers like laptops is that they have that dreaded space at the bottom underneath the keyboard. Exactly why I never use the laptop I was given for work. Just hate it. And as for those keyboard mouse pads.. well get rid of that and get the keyboard in the right place. Otherwise looks OK though wouldn`t buy a $600-$1100 dollar keyboard, even if I'm pretty good at not spilling coffee.

Maybe just a start for the guy and if successful he hopes to expand into more appropriate computers that reflect the aspirations of the user base. After all he got the badge to do that, but sadly for him the nutters like us still around mucking around with the original brands are only going to be tempted by a superior version of that which we already have. A bog standard PC will never wash.... Unless ofcoarse you think sticking a Rolls Royce badge on a bog standard new car is going wash.

scuzz
commodore-amiga-retro

[klx300r]

looks like an up to date 1200 to me

didnt like it at first but its growing on me :-)

[Hell Labs]

Trouble with these computers like laptops is that they have that dreaded space at the bottom underneath the keyboard. Exactly why I never use the laptop I was given for work. Just hate it.

That space is a palm rest. I've used a laptop without it and its utterly terrible. Where are you supposed to put your hands?

[warpdesign]

So it has more legacy ports than you need.....ummm... so what? As long as it has USB ports why would I care?

Removing unneeded ports would have allowed to reduce the size of the case, maybe leading to something prettier...

[Darrin]

This has to be a first.  Someone shows class Amiga users a computer with a serial and parallel port and they COMPLAIN?!  

[Domi73]

A new Amiga with a complete OS would be a better thing than this kind of computer, looks like a laptop without screen...

[Hell Labs]

A new Amiga with a complete OS would be a better thing than this kind of computer, looks like a laptop without screen...

See also:

Every commodore 8-bit, excepting the PET series
Amiga 500
amiga 500+
The mistake of god, amiga 600
amiga 1200

as well as pretty much every computer of the time period.

[VingtTrois]

Sttooppp !!

It's finally a FAKE !

Read more here: AMIGAIMPACT.FR
Update March 19, 2010:

Every story, which seemed somewhat preposterous (© Jacques Chirac) is proving to be an April Fool in advance, in any case the assertion site NoWhereElse.fr who led his little investigation. Of course, they also thought it was a shameless copy of the All-in-One Cybernet, but they also went digging on the side of the web site address. Indeed, it is hosted on a free platform the first 10 days (Citymax, so we can assume that that site will disappear around the 26 or March 27). Furthermore, the contact address available on the website of "Commodore USA" is in fact an address linked to a site selling antique furniture.

Hence to say that this is a joke made by a company employee of furniture on his working time, there is not one that we let you cross alone.

and here: nowhereelse.fr

If you need a good computer, read this (see on AMIGAWORLD.NET): COMMODORE 64@933Mhz