It's a little nostalgic coming from C64/Apple II days having a keyboard+computer in one, but this doesn't make sense anymore. Once you consider the cost of a display, why not just get a netbook or a nettop with display? Even in a developing market, this is pointless.
Because you can just hijack any display you want (with permission of course). I mean, I've got an extra monitor. Want to hook it up to the TV? take it down and connect to the TV. Going to visit a friend? Bring it over connect to their TV.
It's really not a netbook, so much as a portable desktop.
Just to be clear, that's not really a Commodore-branded machine. Some hoaxer took pictures of another company's product (an all-in-one keyboard-computer meant to be used for Point-of-Sales systems) and threw up a poorly designed website claiming it was made by Commodore.
From article, emphasis added: "Apple's iMac has long embodied the notion of an entire PC crammed inside a monitor, but this is the first time we've heard of someone trying it with a keyboard."
When you realize that
1. C64 was designed to connect to a TV
2. That hasn't been feasible for a while since monitors have been so much higher-res than TV
3. But now we have HDTV
Who would connect this to their HDTV, and then use it within the 6' distance of the VGA/HDMI cable? I did that once with my 42" LCD and it felt like my retinas were melting. Typically, one would connect a PC to an HDTV for couch computing. Therefore, nettop and a wireless keyboard/mouse makes much more sense.
I read it... it really isn't much of an article, more like a list of specs.
Anyway, if a wireless video dongle for a TV is the primary video output it is going to fail as a portable device.
Also, if the built in screen is not for primary use... what exactly is it for? it seems to have a bunch of icons on it which I would assume are applications?
