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Commodore Returns with New Gaming PCs

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the everything-old-is-new-again dept.

JamesO writes "Commodore is a name which will bring memories flooding back to many a gamer and it's been announced that the legendary brand is to return with a new range of high specification gaming PCs. The new Commodore PCs optimized for gaming will be launched at the CeBIT show in Germany on March 15 and attendees will be offered the chance to play the latest PC games using the purpose-built PCs."

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  1. Don't RTFA by PadRacerExtreme · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The whole thing is in the summary. Why bother linking to a blog with no real information in it?
    <sigh>

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  2. Re:just a hunch by rucs_hack · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I was going to argue with you.

    However, I'm 40, and every machine I own (ten atm) is home built.

    I guess you're right then.....

  3. Re:Nostalgic name, but that's it. by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I suppose I can see why geeks would be more likely to prefer that brandnames were used on technical similarities rather than for reasons of marketing. Although then again, no one seems to care about reusing the Macintosh brand for different operating systems, or reusing brandnames like "Playstation" for completely different consoles - for some reason it only seems to be the Commodore (and perhaps also Amiga) brands which people complain about here.
    Still, some brand names remain a bit constant. If you happened to be hanging around Apple headquarters, you might bump into Steve Jobs or Woz. The current Apple grew directly from the guys who were building the IIc in the 1980s. You could conceivably still find Shigeru Miyamoto running around the Nintendo offices, and you'd know that you're at the birthplace of the NES you were so glued to way back when. Hate Microsoft all you like, but you can still point to Gates and Ballmer and know that these are a couple of the guys responsible for that ubiquitous MS-DOS stuff you used to play with.

    Brand loyalty can be a funny and superficial thing, and I'm not usually a practitioner of it myself, but I still prefer to see it used by those who earned it rather than third parties who scoop up names that others built. As another commenter on this story wrote, it feels pretty much like the retail version of domain squatting.
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  4. When Commodore... by smokin_juan · · Score: 5, Interesting

    When Commodore -

    - returns to making computers that boots in one second -
    - creates an OS that has programming languages built-in and ready to go -
    - designs a machine that will fit in a backpack -
    - invents a clock that keeps time without power -
    - does something revolutionary -

    that's when I'll buy another Commodore. I'll be damned if I let a group of people manipulate my nostalgia to sell me something as common as air.

  5. Commodore made x86 machines in the 80s & 90s by zsazsa · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In the 80s and 90s, Commodore made a number of 8088/8086, 286, and 386 desktops and laptops!

    There's also the bizarre "Commodore 64" Internet Computer.

    So this use of the Commodore brand isn't completely ridiculous, just a little bit ridiculous.