• [email protected]@lemmy.federate.cc
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    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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      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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                19 hours ago

                I guess I just don’t understand what it having an AMD chip has to do with anything. I just assumed you thought it was being emulated, my bad if it’s not the case.

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                  15 hours ago

                  It’s not the original hardware. If someone makes a Gucci looking bag, but it’s not made with the same materials as the original, would you insist it’s not a Gucci knock off?

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                    5 hours ago

                    I would not, if the “someone” was Gucci itself, and the materials were only different in how they were made.

                    This is literally an official commodore product. There are original Commodore engineers involved with this latest iteration of the business. And when they put a 6510 core on the FPGA, that fpga has in a very physical sense become a bona fide 6510.

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      4 days ago

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