Commodore and Amiga Release New Hardware

Commodore Gaming’s new top ‘o the line XX and GX boxes are finally on offer, with prices ranging from $3,500 and up for quad-core machines decked out with GeForce 8800 GTX video cards and art-slathered modular cases. Detailed specs follow after the jump. The launch is European-only for the moment: “more territories” are to follow. […]

Workbench3Commodore Gaming's new top 'o the line XX and GX boxes are finally on offer, with prices ranging from $3,500 and up for quad-core machines decked out with GeForce 8800 GTX video cards and art-slathered modular cases. Detailed specs follow after the jump. The launch is European-only for the moment: "more territories" are to follow.

Today also sees the announcement of the first new Amiga hardware since the 1990s — though, like the "Commodore" name, the Amiga brand has been through so many hands since the A500 heyday that linking the two is only relevant as pure nostalgia.

That said, it's PPC-based, will run the recently-completed Amiga OS 4 (pictured), and be much cheaper than Commodore Gaming's PCs. $500 will grab a consumer model and $1,500 a workstation. I have no idea if these will play my old Amiga games from almost 20 years ago, but they do have a hardcore fanbase with wallets at the reader...

Commodore Store

Amiga Press Release

Commodore XX Specifications:

Intel® Core™2 Extreme QX6700, 2.66GHz 8MB Cache
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2GB, Corsair™ DOMINATOR™ Twin2x2048-8500C5D, 1066MHz
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2x 500GB SATA 7200RPM 16MB Cache (RAID0)
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ASUS® P5N32-E SLI (NVIDIA® nForce® 680i SLI™)
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2x Point of View NVIDIA® GeForce® 8800 GTX 768MB (SLI)
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850 Watt ICE Cube Power Supply
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7 in 1 Card reader
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Creative Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ Xtremegamer
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Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Ultimate