Sunday, April 10, 2011

Say hello to the new Commodore 64!



This is amazing!  It has been announced that there is a new Commodore 64 although things are a little... complicated. We were first contacted way back in March when the company shared the news that it had acquired the rights to sell PCs under the name. Then what happened? Turns out this was not exactly the case... although CEO Barry Altman assured us that they were on their way towards hammering out a deal. And here we are, in possession of a press release saying that indeed, Commodore USA, LLC, and Commodore Licensing B.V. have finally come to an agreement, meaning that your subsequent purchases will at least come with a Commodore decal. But that ain't all! This also paves the way for the company's newest offering, the Commodore PC64, an Intel Atom-powered PC featuring 4GB DDR3 memory, SATA 1TB HDD, HDMI output, optical drive (either DVD/CD or optional Blu-ray), and more -- all in "an exact replica" of the original beige C64 chassis. Of course, doing any significant amount of work with the original Commodore keyboard will probably be a challenge, but we like to think we're up to it. As always, we'll believe it when we see it, but in the meantime we'd like to be the first to formally request a review unit. If everything goes according to plan, this bad boy should be out in time for the holidays.




5 comments:

  1. Why put an Atom in this? It could be a great machine for techies that grew up with C64s, but they have Core i5/i7s and what not already. Why would they want a 1.6Ghz single core machine with integrated graphics?

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  2. Haha, I posted about this in my blog as well. I was lucky enough to use an old one way back in the day, and kind of want the new one now

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