Comment on The Commodore 64 Ultimate computer is the company's first hardware release in over 30 years — pre-orders start at $299

barnaclebutt@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• sparky@lemmy.federate.cc ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s an extremely niche product, to be fair. The general public was never going to buy it, and diehards will buy it at a premium price. When you consider the small manufacturing runs they’re probably planning, the price seems less ridiculous IMO.

  I wouldn’t pay $300 for it, so I don’t claim it’s a “good value”, but I can understand from a mathematics of manufacturing standpoint why the price is something like that.

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  • Revan343@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Better value than a cocaine or Warhammer habit, probably not as good value as a good chainsaw

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    • sparky@lemmy.federate.cc ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Lmfao, what a scale!

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  • BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You can still get perfectly working original ones for less. Why would anyone want to spend more on a knock off?

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    • bloup@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It might not be a “first edition” but it’s definitely not a “knockoff”.

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      • BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        It literally runs on AMD 🤣

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• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They cost $2,000 (in 2025 $) when they released in 1982. Sounds like a deal to me!

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