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Just when you thought we had seen everything, guess what surfaced at IFA in Berlin? A new netbook running the same slow VIA chip that only an Atom shortage is saving from End of Life. Big whoopie, why even comment on such a thing, as I am sure there were at least 350 vaguely similar, generally unimpressive netbooks announced this weekend alone. Tech fads are tech fads after all.

However, the UMMD 8010/F is different.

You see, the UMMD 8010/F is a COMMODORE. Yes, now I can relive those glorious C64 days, as I amazed my legion of cool, hip friends in Junior High with my a powerful computer of my very own (actually it was more like sitting in a basement playing Hunt the Wumpus with two even geekier 13 year old boys, one of whom had a little sister that kept turning off the light switch that controlled the outlet the C64 was plugged into….thrilling days indeed).

Finally I can own a Commodore home computer again and now that I am an adult, I won’t have as many guys beating me up over it. The UMMD 8010 features the following specs:

• Via C7-M processor
• Microsoft XP or GNU Linux operating systems.
• 10-inch screen
• 80GB hard drive
• 1GB of RAM
• 802.11b/g
• Optional Bluetooth
• 1.3 megapixel webcam
• Digital array microphone
• White, black, grey and pink
• £325.

God I wish it were available in beige. Maybe I can airbrush it beige. Now if only I could find a TRS-80 MID, my geek hall of resurrected shame would be complete.
(Source – Pocket Lint)

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By day a department manager and writer for a major network device vendor...by night Zealot stalks the mean magnetic streets, striking fear into the hearts of bandwidth abusers and theme park mascots. Zealot has been involved with mobile devices for more than a decade now, starting off with dumb phones, moving to PDAs and then to smartphones, notebooks and netbooks with the odd PMP thrown in. Most of his mobile time currently is spent on a Treo Pro, Zune HD, Thinkpad T61, Gigabyte M912M or a Hackintoshed Compaq Mini 704. He proudly groks the Geek community and considers himself a Neo Maxi Zune Dweebie (thanks Will Wheaton!).