Wow, Commodor resurected ?

Browser_ICEBrowser_ICE Join Date: 2002-11-04 Member: 6944Members
<div class="IPBDescription">Announcing a new PC !</div>Boy was I surprise when I read my mail from <a href="http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=13148" target="_blank">Gamasutra</a>.

Commodore is announcing a new PC !

For those that are too young to remember, Commodore used to make the Amiga, Commodore-64, Pet Commodore and the Vic-20. I used to own a C-64 and an Amiga-2000 but that was like almost 20 years ago. Back then Amiga's used to rival with IBM-PCs and in some aspects, were even better then IBM. But Commodore had a hudge problem. They were lacking big time in marketing. As effect almost no one knew about them and their sales went down even if they had a good PC back then. They eventualy went bankrupt around 1994 or so. I heard a German company baught them back 2-3 years after that but never heard anything since then.

Briefly, theire new PC is :

Processor: IntelR CoreT2 Extreme quad-core processor QX6700, 2.66 8M Cache
Motherboard: ASUSR P5N32-E nForce 680i SLI
Hard drive/Storage: 2x 150Gb 10000 Rpm Sata Raid 0, 1x 500Gb 7200 Rpm Sata
Memory:, 4 Gb Corsair Dominator twin2x2048-8500C5D, 1066MHz
I/O: 7in1 cardreader; (Front) USBx2 Firewire x 1 HeadPhone x 1 MicroPhone x 1
Optical: Philips DVDRW
Power Supply: 1000W ICE Cube PSU
Audio: CreativeR SoundBlaster X-Fi
Graphics: 2x nVidia 8800 GTX 768MB
OS: Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate

<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->"The new PCs will be launched tomorrow at the CeBIT 2007 show in Germany, with four different models named Cg, Cgs, Cgx and Cxx. These are described as ranging from an entry level gaming PC to an “extreme specification model”. Each machine runs Windows Vista and can be customized from a range of high end components and peripherals."<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

I do not know about PCs to say if this is worth coming back or not.

So I guess they are trying to come back from the dead !

Comments

  • ThansalThansal The New Scum Join Date: 2002-08-22 Member: 1215Members, Constellation
    yah, it was announced a little while ago.

    It sounds like it is basicly just some one bought the name commodore and started making gaming rigs with it.
  • RustySpoonRustySpoon Join Date: 2003-07-10 Member: 18069Members
    Plus, with the name they get to raise the price sky-high.
  • WarriorWarrior Join Date: 2003-02-16 Member: 13624Members
    Iffy PSU choice. Never heard of it. Other then that the specs are nice as long as it doesn't cost 5 grand.
  • FacTorFacTor Wyoming, MI Join Date: 2002-12-17 Member: 10916Members
    I want a price tag on that.
  • MonkfishMonkfish Sonic-boom-inducing buttcheeks of terrifying speed&#33; Join Date: 2003-06-03 Member: 16972Members
    <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6453339.stm" target="_blank">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6453339.stm</a>

    "No prices have been announced yet but the range is expected to be between £1,000-£5,000 ($1,900-$9,500). "

    Custom cases too.
  • FacTorFacTor Wyoming, MI Join Date: 2002-12-17 Member: 10916Members
    Okay, that estimated price is <i>really</i> helpful.. you'd think they could narrow it down some. That's nearly a $8000 margin.
  • SurgeSurge asda4a3sklflkgh Join Date: 2002-07-14 Member: 944Members
    At least they're sticking with Commodore tradition...
  • UltimaGeckoUltimaGecko hates endnotes Join Date: 2003-05-14 Member: 16320Members
    We can only hope it's like the <a href="http://www.retrojunk.com/details_commercial/57/" target="_blank">last</a> one.
  • Kouji_SanKouji_San Sr. Hινε Uρкεερεг - EUPT Deputy The Netherlands Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16271Members, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue
    hmm basically that commercial can be re-used, since the consoles still have not changed much in essence *cough keyboard cough* they've only become more powerfull <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
  • DOOManiacDOOManiac Worst. Critic. Ever. Join Date: 2002-04-17 Member: 462Members, NS1 Playtester
    This is just someone buying and using their name for brand recognition. They're no more back than Atari is. :(



    The cases do look really, really slick though:

    <a href="http://www.shacknews.com/screens.x/commodore/Commodore+PCs/1/thumbs/070314_commdore_pcs_01.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.shacknews.com/screens.x/commodo...dore_pcs_01.jpg</a>

    Especially the SupCom one.

    I think they have potential to finally give Alienware some competition in the "I have too much money" demographic.
  • ThaldarinThaldarin Alonzi&#33; Join Date: 2003-07-15 Member: 18173Members, Constellation
    Wow this looks like another attempt at a rip off company which we don't need in rip off uk over pricing our computers even more so
  • Browser_ICEBrowser_ICE Join Date: 2002-11-04 Member: 6944Members
    Back in 1985 when I bought my first PC, it was a Commodore-64 and I had paied $895 Canadian dollars back then !

    Later I had bought the 256K memory expansion and the GEOS O/S that was sort of like the equivalent of the Windows 3.1 back then. I had started to learn Assembler.

    Around 1998, my Amiga started to have video problems. Back then, they had specialized chips for graphics and sounds directly on the motherboard. So there weren't any cards to add. My PC was having major graphic problems and it was freezing constantly, but Commodore had gone bankrupt a few years before. I tried finding a store that would repair it but the only one I had found was charging me way more then the market value (if I had sold it then, which is about $500). The store was charging me over $800. Hardware/chips for it were extreamly hard to find. I figured that it was a lost and since the company died, it would cust even more the next time it broke. So I said to the clerk to keep it. I didn't want it anymore.

    I had fun with them. Ahhhh, the memories ....
  • DiscoZombieDiscoZombie Join Date: 2003-08-05 Member: 18951Members
    edited March 2007
    never had a commodore (Atari, NES, and 286 were my earliest gaming platforms), but played a bit at a friend's house. I'll never forget <a href="http://www.abandonia.com/games/263/download/AlterEgo(ManWoman).htm" target="_blank">Alter Ego</a> because it was so unique... it could totally use a remake.
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