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

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• barnaclebutt@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Feels a little pricey to be successful. A pity.

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  • sparky@lemmy.federate.cc ⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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    • BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨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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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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• loomy@lemy.lol ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  the company still exists?

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  • cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yea, just sold to a prominent retro computer YouTuber (though I’m planning on the name atm) so I think it’s in good hands now (though too soon for this product, it was literally like a week or 2 ago they closed the deal)

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    • chellomere@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Perifractic is the name of the YouTuber

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    • loomy@lemy.lol ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      neat

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• EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Song name? I feel like it’s way too fucking good to be an ad jingle

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