Written by Darren Quick at Gizmag (http://www.gizmag.com/author/darren-quick/) reports that “[...] Commodore USA has just announced that it has reached a licensing agreement that will allow it to produce a full line of new Commodore branded All in one (AIO) keyboard computers and intends to start selling an exact replica of the original beige chassis C64. Cue some misty eyed reminiscing from a large part of our readership.
Because users would think the original 8-bit C64’s specs a bit lacking nowadays and would find the prospect of loading games from a tape drive positively antiquated, the updated Commodore PC64 will include an Intel Atom 525 CPU with NVIDIA Ion2 graphics, 4GB DDR3 memory, 1TB Hdd, HDMI, DVD/CD optical drive (Blu-ray optional), dual-link DVI, six USB ports, integrated 802.11n WiFi, bluetooth and a 6-in-1 media card reader. [...] ” (full article at http://www.gizmag.com/updated-commodore-64/16156/).
There are some things that should remain in our minds as they were. This is the case of C64. I understand the marketing appeal, but the flavour is different.
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