Commodore SX-64 vs MacBook Air
regmedia.co.uk — A feature comparison between a Commodore SX-64 and the new MacBook AIr
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tobsterius
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dang. I almost have a setup as good as the Air...
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Hey. at least now i can see my keyboard. that is an improvement..
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You forgot the air: "fits in an inner office envelope".
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But if you included a tape drive, game on.
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damn, i thought my commodore SX-64 was going to be the best machine on the market for years
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I really don't need back lit. That's why God invented the little tabs on home row.
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Come on guys, as if the check mark wasn't enough. That beast has firewire.
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I see what you did there.
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I wonder how my old amstrad works in comparison...
It runs of several 9v batteries.., and it accepts 5 1/2" floppy disks...
I think i win... !!!!! -
This....wasn't really funny.
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Hmm, both useless, one skinny.
Kinda like Paris Hilton and Rosie O'Donnell. -
Floppy drive FTW for the Commodore
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The commodore has the distinct benefit of being retro.
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I still have more games on my CSX64 :)
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The Macbook Air is really light, really expensive, and really nothing special. If you're considering getting one, I'd say consider a regular Macbook, which is way cheaper, still really light, and has a CD drive.
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Everyone is bitching about the Mac Book. While there are some flaws like the replaceable battery, it is a marvel in engineering. Being able to create the motherboard that small and a computer that thin is fairly incredible.
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A long time ago I wanted a midget to do all my personal tasks. Then I got an iPhone. Then I wanted the air to replace the iphone and the midget. But, then I noticed that the air was no better than my iPhone midget man. Anyways I guess what I'm saying is that if the chargers had a midget on the team, then they would've won today.
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/breath
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The platform that Apple is using here is an obvious step towards the "SAS" software as a solution idea where more and more technology will be geared to be less hardware dependent. Eventually all the software you will ever need will be online and all your music, photos, etc. be stored on one main hardrive in the home or office. Seems weird now, but in a couple of years this is where we'll be.
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Took me a second to get the point of that table, but damn that was pretty funny.
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it's funny cuz its true
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For those who didn't get it, this is a stab at Apple's marketing techniques. Rather than compare against current generation competitors, they release test specs against dated machines.
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why do you all hate mac so much? oh yeah. cuz they suck. kudos.
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commodore ftw, apple ftl!
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I...dont....get...it....
At first i thought "oh it's sarcastic haha" since all those are things the MBA does not have, EXCEPT the back lit keyboard. So it's sarcastic save for one item. Is this new 2008 brand of parody?
Edit: i see now. the checkmark only applies to the keyboard. Forgive me i just woke up literally 5 mins ago (yeah i check Digg upon waking up, big whoop, wanna fight about it?). -
This is a cool comparison :)
Well, you can't say, that this isn't true ;) -
They may as well have done a feature comparison of a potato vs MacBook Air. The result would have been the same. This is lame.
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Does this thing have copy and paste, or will that be included later?
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I went to an Apple store today to check out the Air. That machine is amazing. It's so thin I couldn't even see it sitting there on the counter.
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You're wrong the Commodore 64 is the better machine; it can be used as a paper weight, an anchor and can stop a bullet.
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This is a compliment, right? Showing how far computers have come, and the obsolescence of once popular features? How funny would it be to see some guy transported from the 90's flipping out over the absence of a 5 1/4 floppy drive, 56k modem, parallel port, and serial port in a modern computer? Well this is exactly the same thing.. Some of you guys act like cd drives and ethernet ports are somehow going to be here forever and be the first technologies ever created to escape obsolescence.
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I wish to God people would cop on, the Macbook air a a new line of laptop for a specific type of user. The very fact that there are other lines of Apple laptops available, shows that this laptop is not meant for everyone!
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Did anyone else spend a minute thinking that the check mark meant the MacBook Air had all those features?
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A spec sheet doesn't prove anything.
We all know which has better games. :-) -
odd.. people were so mad when apple starting leaving floppy drives out... now you're all mad about leaving out optical drives. get over it, if someone didn't leave it out we'd have it forever. time to innovate.
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Heck yeah i'd pay double the price for half the hardware and a cool design...but what do you do when somebody tries to steal it from you? You can't hit 'em in the face like you do with the commodore = Commodore > Air
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The MacBook Air can nicely emulate the Commdore 64 several times over as well.
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This is a funny comparison, but would have been even funnier if it labeled the Commodore as winning - for it's exactly all the same arguments against the Air we see today, which ignore the good features of the Air and the reasons why you might leave the SX specific features out of a laptop.
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My current laptop doesn't have an optical drive and I've managed without it. I use it for mobility anyway and I can emulate a drive with Daemon tools.
However, the Macbook air still lacks some necessary ports like ethernet. Most importantly, for "on the road users" which I thought this laptop was meant for, is that it lacks a user replaceable battery. Because of that, I have no idea what type of user this three pound laptop is directed at. -
Here's the article that pic was from to put it "slightly" more in context:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/20/tob_commod ... -
That commodore not only runs Linux but Compiz as well.
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lol that was funny
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APPLE SUX
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Now look here all of you smart people. I wrote my engineering thesis on a Commodore Sx-64 after lugging it between university and home many times. It was such an improvement on my original C64 and actually used floppy disks instead of cassettes. The printer setup was a pain and I eventually used a terminal program to squirt the text over to a Mac Plus to finish the project in Word 1 point something. The great thing about the SX64 was that Commodore never made the second floppy drive adapter and that left just enough room to stuff a sandwich in the gap for a complete portable computing unit. Try that with your Mac Book Air!
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You guys will enjoy this book:
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LOL!
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This is what rigg.com gets for rigging their engine to favor apple related keywords.
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The SX64's battery isn't user-replaceable? I find that hard to believe, considering that battery technology at the time didn't provide very long life. It was probably a lead-acid battery. (I know the battery in my Mac Portable was a lead-acid battery).
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