Ok you C64 and Amiga fans - fancy the Commodore Pheonix?

Uriel · 19 Mar 2010 at 21:56

http://www.commodoreusa.net/tech.html

Coming Spring 2010

Like the form factor. Shame you can't cram in a decent GPU...

PermaBanned · 19 Mar 2010 at 21:59

Nothing particularly interesting about the spec... just hope they can make it back with the software.

Uriel · 19 Mar 2010 at 22:01

The software is Windows, Ubunto, Mac OS - whatever you fancy really.

It's not on my to buy list (this isn't a new Amiga or anything - just Commodore USA putting out a PC in a keyboard).

Ultim8 · 19 Mar 2010 at 22:03

cool because its commodore but in reality its a laptop without a screen

PermaBanned · 19 Mar 2010 at 22:05

I thought in the last thread there was something about them doing something new with the Amiga OS?

Uriel · 19 Mar 2010 at 22:09

Superewza said:
I thought in the last thread there was something about them doing something new with the Amiga OS?

Amiga and Commodore are seperate entities.

I've a feeling that Commodore USA are a seperate entitiy to the commodore that was recently selling blinged up PCs round these parts. It seems to be just a wee startup that's trying to get the rights to stick a C64 logo on this thing

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PermaBanned · 19 Mar 2010 at 22:12

That image leads me to believe that it is an Amiga, just released by Commodore?

Mean Mr Mustard · 19 Mar 2010 at 22:22

Not interested in the specs.

Question is, will it include a purple screen with an animated floppy disk when you switch it on?

whitecrook · 19 Mar 2010 at 22:23

What's old is new.

Uriel · 19 Mar 2010 at 22:27

Rumours doing the rounds that this is a fake.

Commodore Gaming (who own the rights to the name in the USA) haven't heard a sausage about it...

Uriel · 19 Mar 2010 at 22:36

This was the stuff about the new Amiga coming out that superewza mentioned. That spec did look interesting: http://www.osnews.com/story/22693/New_Amiga_Sports_Programmable_Co-Processor_Dualcore_PPC

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http://a-eon.com/6.html

mame · 19 Mar 2010 at 23:25

I had an Amiga. Well, I had a few. This is just a low-specced PC ?

jlss · 20 Mar 2010 at 02:15

No tape drive

whitecrook · 20 Mar 2010 at 02:46

jlss said:
No tape drive

Maybe it has EAR and MIC sockets.?

JonJ678 · 20 Mar 2010 at 03:05

It can't use far less energy than any other desktop. Atom systems have got to the point where a 10W computer wouldn't count as using far less energy. So that much at least is a blatant lie. Pretty sure that's bigger than any of the nettops too.

Fred · 20 Mar 2010 at 06:42

mame said:
I had an Amiga. Well, I had a few. This is just a low-specced PC ?

I still have a few

Uriel · 20 Mar 2010 at 11:11

I have my old A1200 sitting in a box. At some point I'm going to admit to myself that I'm never going to use it again.

craptakular · 20 Mar 2010 at 11:23

Seems fake, why would they use C2Q when i3,i5 and i7 mobile is out?

mame · 20 Mar 2010 at 11:23

Uriel said:
I have my old A1200 sitting in a box. At some point I'm going to admit to myself that I'm never going to use it again.

My mate still has an Amiga HDD with games and utilities installed on it. I think it's 80MB. He hasn't owned an Amiga since the mid-ninties but keeps it "just in case"

craptakular · 20 Mar 2010 at 11:24

I wish I still had my A600

If I got one now it would ruin the memory as it would be carp.