[mdlug] [Fwd: [Offtopic] Commodore, the same company behind the Commodore 64, is back.]

[Robert Adkins II]

Wow, a laptop, without a screen...

Color me unimpressed. It's not even good as a nostalgia product.

-Rob
 

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> Subject: [mdlug] [Fwd: [Offtopic] Commodore, the same company 
> behind the Commodore 64, is back.]
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [Offtopic] Commodore, the same company behind the 
> Commodore 64,	is back.
> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:46:39 -0400
> From: Fred A. Miller <fmiller at lightlink.com>
> Reply-To: fmiller at lightlink.com
> To: Lew's Off-Topic List <offtopic at sweet-haven.com>
> 
> http://www.commodoreusa.net/tech.html
> 
> Commodore, the same company behind the Commodore 64, is back. 
>  Their first major US product in decades is a feature rich 
> all-in-one keyboard PC pre-installed with Ubuntu Linux.
> 
> The unit comes with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor upgradeable 
> to 3GHz on an Intel G31 Express Chipset mobo that supports up 
> to 4GB of PC2-5300 667MHz&  PC2- 6400 800MHz DDR2 RAM.  
> Graphics are provided by an Intel GMA 3100 and support for 
> two displays.  Storage is done via
> SATA2 with an option to upgrade to 2TBs, and there is also an 
> option for a removable HDD as well.  The computer can be 
> expanded with 4 USB 2.0 slots, two serial port, PS/2 mouse&  
> keyboard ports, a parallel printer port, and combined 
> mini-PCI/PCI-e port.  Network is via Gigabit LAN or optional 
> Wi-Fi, which also includes a Bluetooth radio as well.  Sound 
> is provided by a Realtek AL888 High Definition Audio which is 
> Ubuntu compatible out of the box.  The optical drive can be a 
> standard DVD-RW or Blu-Ray drive.  The AMI BIOS supports 
> booting from USB devices, and the system has EFI support 
> (meaning its Hackintosh ready), and the full-sized keyboard 
> features a laptop style touch pad mouse.  Though the specs 
> don't list it, in one of the images you can clearly see what 
> looks like a credit card swipe slot-reader.
> 
> The product isn't going to be officially rolled out until 
> June.  The biggest deal is this machine is the fact that its 
> pre-installed with Ubuntu by default and uses hardware that 
> is very Linux friendly.  A number of other operating systems 
> are listed as being compatible.
> They also say it can run Mac OS X, but you have to turn it 
> into a Hackintosh yourself and buy Mac OS X yourself.  This 
> doesn't make them legally liable to Apple, a smart move.
> 
> --
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