Intel Flaunts Mac mini Knock-off

Rollie Hawk writes "Remember how the Mac mini was designed by Apple to steal PC customers? Now Intel wants to steal them back. Adopting a shockingly similar lunch box shape and light-weight design, Intel's upcoming Mini PC features all the sleekness and portability (physical, that is) of the Mac mini with none of the Mac benefits. Well, at least it will probably have a faster processor. Now if only someone would make a Cobalt Qube knock-off for me."

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Big Woop

[Anonymous Coward]

Everybody rips off everybody.
How bout a summary that tells me what it has, what it doesn't, and how much it costs?

And why is an Intel machine in the Apple section?!

Re:it's an empty case

[Jason Hood]

For $500 you could build an amd64 system with "better" hardware that would absolutely knock the panties off a G4 MacMini in terms of sorting, fp/int calcs, ffts and huffman encoding (amond others).

MacMini's are great though, I have recommended them many times over to family and friends that just need a web/email/music/video machine. They are small, dont have spy/adware (yet) and get the job done. For the _average_ consumer, its $500-$700 well spent.

Re:it's an empty case

[Swedentom]

Why is this a troll? Gotta love Slashdot...

Re:i is for innovation

[AthanK]

"Yeah, this is going to blow that right out of the water. Listen to this: 7... Minute... Abs." -- There's Something About Mary