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It's interesting that Dave mentioned education as a possible market for these. I thought kids were learning Javascript on their school-issued Chromebooks these days. It would be nice to teach students about the concepts of computer hardware architecture... but the Commander's architecture is kinda weird, being a hodgepodge of ancient (6502) and modern (FPGA), with bank-switched memory and the desire for backwards compatibility with Commodore peripherals hanging off of it like a lamprey. Sure, students could learn about computer architecture on it, but it's hard to see how it's better than other, cheaper options. Big money awaits if they can pull it off though.
It's interesting that Dave mentioned education as a possible market for these. I thought kids were learning Javascript on their school-issued Chromebooks these days. It would be nice to teach students about the concepts of computer hardware architecture... but the Commander's architecture is kinda weird, being a hodgepodge of ancient (6502) and modern (FPGA), with bank-switched memory and the desire for backwards compatibility with Commodore peripherals hanging off of it like a lamprey. Sure, students could learn about computer architecture on it, but it's hard to see how it's better than other, cheaper options. Big money awaits if they can pull it off though.
He's got classic boomer brain about this: computers were good back in the day and now computers are just too powerful to do anything useful
Or maybe there are people who find working in low powered environments that behave a certain way, more like computers did in the 80s enjoyable.
It's not about boomers or what's powerful and what's not. Some things are just for fun and that's all the justification they need IMO.