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I was reading through some news on Google and came across this article on bild.de. The Commodore 64 is due to be rereleased with an Intel Core 2 Quad, 4GB RAM, a 500GB HDD, Intel chipset, and a bunch of other features. A peek at the Commodore website shows Ubuntu, Windows, OSX, Chrome, AROS, and Comodo OSs under the "OS" link at the top of the page.
I'm not sure if I'd really want one of these things, though. After looking through the specs, I find (surprise surprise!) that the GPU is yet another Intel GMA POS. I'm sorry, I'm just biased against Intel graphics. It's becoming harder and harder to find a laptop with anything other than an Intel graphics chipset, and it annoys the hell out of me. When I was in high school a couple years back, the Macs all had GMA 950s (of course, default specs, best bargain, because they're purchasing units for the whole room/lab/whatever; I totally understand). Try to run Google Earth on those things, and you get maybe 15-20 FPS with the default graphics settings, maximized! Okay, so maybe I'm not accounting for Quartz Extreme compositing, or other abstraction factors, but that's still not a good sign. An equivalent machine with an ATI or NVIDIA GPU could probably leave that thing in the dust...maybe I'm just picky.
Okay, rant over now
EDIT: Something else I wanted to say: The original machine's like, older than me , but I still find older computers fascinating for some reason. I used to mess around with a C64 emulator called CCS64 quite a bit. I'm pretty sure it's Windows-only, though. You might be able to run it under Wine, but I've never tried it, so I can't say for sure.
But anyways, that's kinda what drew me to this link. Not really "nostalgia" in the sense that I actually remember having an original Commodore 64, but it just reminded me of something I find fascinating anyway.
@ MRCode -- you're right, imho as well, the onboard video device leaves a lot to be desired. And, I'm not too sure if this thing realistically can have a video upgrade, though it DOES have a couple mini PCI-E slots, so theoretically one *could* put a video card in there.
Beside that, all in all, it's a pretty cool little machine -- I like the integrated lap-top-ish touchpad too. And, it appears there will be a decent selection of possible configuration options for it.
My first computer WAS a C-64-C, so the nostalgia is real for me -- 1.0 Mhz computing power, 4-voice sound chip, 16 colors iirc.. It was GREAT
NOTE: I wanna say this BEFORE the fact: If it had been April 1st when I first saw this ad for the new-coming C64, I'd have been really suspicious of it (April fools & all) but since it's BEFORE April 1, I'm giving it the benefit of the doubt. I really think this'd be a nifty little machine.
I'm not too sure if this thing realistically can have a video upgrade, though it DOES have a couple mini PCI-E slots, so theoretically one *could* put a video card in there.
Any decent GPU card worth it's buck probably wouldn't fit in that tiny case, so you're right, it's probably a no-go.
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If it had been April 1st when I first saw this ad for the new-coming C64, I'd have been really suspicious of it (April fools & all)
Heh, I never really thought of that, but that's a good point, LOL. They do show the internals, though, so one would tend to think that would be pretty hard to fake (unless you've got mad Photoshop skills ).
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