Commodore Announces Cheap and Cheerful Netbook

[JMcEntegart]

Commodore International, the company that brought us the Commodore 64 has announced that it too will be jumping on the netbook bandwagon along with the rest of the world.

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[Luscious]

With a $600 pricetag, I'd get rid of the Commodore name and slap AMIGA on it instead. Heck it's beige too.

Wow, took 20 years, but the world finally has an Amiga laptop. Jay Miner would be proud.

Now all we need is some Guru Meditation...

 

[Pei-chen]

The more interesting question is: what has they been up to these 20 years? Sending the engineer to school to learn how to design a nettop?

 

[Guest]

"The more interesting question is: what has they been up to these 20 years?" - Pei-Chen

"what has they been up to..." a most interesting question indeed.

 

[mbmcavoy]

Sadly, not am Amiga... While the OS isn't completely dead, I understand that Commodore doesn't control it or the name anymore. And while it's supposedly been updated, I can't imagine it can truly compete in today's market.

Somehow I don't expect this to recapture Commodore's glory days of innovation, accessibility, educational value, and low cost. The closest we have to that today is the XO Laptop.

But you gotta keep progressing...
- VIC-20
- C64
- Amiga 500
- Windows 3.11
- Windows 95/98/98SE/ME
- Windows 2000
- Windows XP
- Mac OS X 10.5 (couldn't resist...)

 

[Guest]

It's not really the company that brought us the C64 & Amiga. The brand name has been bought & sold a few times over the years. It's nothing but a name now.

 

[knickle]

What nismor31 said. The Commodore of twenty years ago no longer exists. It's just a name now.

 

[jeverson]

OK... I have to admit it has a cool factor... but what would really sell it for me is if they get rid of that boring black "C=" logo and bring back the multicolored one... and lastly... if it's running windows... or even linux... strip out the games that come with the OS and replace them with some of the classic C=64 games... aw yeah!.. I guess a name change would be nice too!.. WTF does Commodore UMMD 8010/F mean anyway? I think Mobile C=64 sounds better... something anyway... but either way it is nice to see it around again... and for those wondering what C= has been doing... they appear to building Intel based gaming rigs ranging anywhere from $1200 to $5000... do a search... later...