Originally posted on March 19, 2010 @ 5:42 am
I think it might be time to say goodbye to the Eee Keyboard.
Okay, the Eee Keyboard hasn’t even been launched yet, but we all know that it’s already woefully outdated by netbook/nettop standards. Heck, Asus’s own nettops beat the Eee Keyboard by sheer computing power a long time ago. Strangely, even though the all-in-one keyboard PC has been outdated since, I don’t know, the 80’s, but we’re enamored by the prospect of this form factor. I don’t understand why either.
When we talk about keyboard PCs, there’s only one brand that should come up in discussion: the Commodore. You know, the old computers that are compact and economical. Its been past their glory days, but the Commodore brand might make a comeback. Check out what Engadget has to say:
But all that could change if Barry Altman has his way. As President and CEO of the newly minted Commodore USA, he’s spent the better part of a year crawling through the arcane red tape necessary to get the rights to the Commodore name. And now? With any luck, later this year the company’s monumental advertising campaign will have had its effect (“something like you’ve never seen in your life,” as Altman described it to us on the phone this afternoon) and you’ll be able to have your very own keyboard computer with the Commodore logo slapped on for good measure.
There obviously aren’t any specs out yet, but it’s rumored that the new Commodore might be based off the Cybernet ZPC-GX31, which will give it a Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quad chips, GMA X3100 graphics chipset, up to 4GB of RAM, a slimline optical drive, and Mini PCI and PCI-e slot.
What do you think?