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Skriven 2010-03-28 01:35:43 av Alan Zisman (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 60385 av WAYNE CHIRNSIDE (1:123/140)
Ärende: Commodore 64 returns...
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On 27-03-10 1:04 PM, WAYNE CHIRNSIDE -> ALAN ZISMAN wrote:

 AZ>> It WILL be interesting to see whether it sells in any quantities. In
 AZ>> many ways, it's just another PC clone, fitted into a Commodore-style
 AZ>> case... questions will include price point and distribution.
 AZ>> Personally, I suspect that unless they can get it VERY widely
 AZ>> distributed - into mass market retailers - and widely advertised then
 AZ>> it will just sink in the sea of PC clones. I don't think the Commodore
 AZ>> brand name has much traction any more.

 WC> My take exactly after curiousity caused me to checkout that URL.

 WC> A home made PC white box in a standard full size ATX tower is a better
 WC> deal by
 WC> far me thinks.

What it makes me think of is a 1999 product launch I attended (and wrote about
in: http://www.zisman.ca/Articles/1999/Launches.html). Creative Labs launched
their own branded white-box PC clones - only in Canada I believe - as a test
run, hoping to later launch in the US. They were pretty standard 'white box' PC
clones for that era, with inovation limited to audio and USB connectors on the
front (rare at the time), and Creative sound and other cards... the idea was to
sell them through independent computer shops, offering a standard brand with
presumably standard quality at a price only a bit higher than the clones
typically assembled in the back of the shops - lower than the Tier 1 brands
like HP, etc.

It didn't fly (and was fairly quickly dropped by Creative)... there wasn't
enough to differentiate them from all the other clones... and Creative lacked
the marketing and distribution clout to create a buzz around the brand name.

I suspect the same here. Some people, curious and/or nostalgic, will be led by
the Commodore name to check it out, but there's not much about it that really
differentiates it from all the other clones. (The Amiga emulation and
hackintosh-ability are not particularly tied to the hardware... I'm amused by
what you get my clicking on their hackintosh link - a statement that they don't
support it along with a link to Apple to purchase a copy of OS X).

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