Commodore launch the UMD 8010/F Netbook

By Roland Hutchinson on Tuesday 2nd September 2008 1:00 pm in Netbooks, PC Hardware

The latest company to enter the Netbook arena, is none other than Commodore, with the Commodore 8010/F Netbook.

The Commodore 8010/F Netbook will feature a 1.6GHz via C7-M processor, an 80GB hard drive, 802.11 b/g Wi-Fi, bluetooth and a 10 inch LCD screen.

The Commodore 8010/F Netbook will go on sale for around $610, which is certainly quite a bit more than the old Commodore 64 used to cost.

What do you think?

Rob

The old Commodore 64 cost $595 when it was new. It’s really not that much more. Looks like the specs have improved a bit though…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64
Giana Sisters

I’ve seen it on the IFA last Sunday. This netbook looks very cheap, so I wonder that they ask $610 for it.
sjc1963

Actually, when the C64 first came out it was around $1000 in some places….
http://www.commodore.ca Ian

see: http://www.commodore.ca/products/c64/commodore_64.htm

The Retail Environment: Before its announcement at CES, retail prices as high as $1000 per unit had been proposed for the base machine (i.e. no floppy drive, cassette drive, or monitor). Quickly the price was set at a more reasonable $595.

…By the mid 80′s large dealers were buying the 64 for about $100. Some retailers sold 64′s for less than $100 hoping that consumers would buy the floppy drives, printers, disks, modems and desks, which they made much higher margins on. In 2003 I sold a 1541 floppy disk that was originally purchased from Canadian Tire and still had the shocking retail price sticker on it of $399! There was definitely margin in the extras.
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