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Intel Preps Mac mini Look-Alike
boarder8925 writes "From Wired: 'A new Wintel prototype that openly apes Apple Computer's popular Mac mini is due out this week, giving Intel a showcase to prove its chips are a match for anyone when it comes to tiny PC designs. Working prototypes of the Mac mini look-alike running Microsoft Windows and based on Intel's Pentium M CPU have already been built by Taiwan PC maker AOpen at Intel's request, according to two sources in Taiwan's PC manufacturing industry who have seen them.' This isn't the non-working box Slashdot covered earlier."
Long live AMD64
As long as they drop the MHz on the Intel chips, this could be a definite contender in the over-priced/underpower market.
...until the mouse has only one button.
I kid, I kid. I own a Mac myself.
Anakin Simpson: If you're not with me, then you're my enemy--ooh, donuts!
The obvious next step is to put the computer in the keyboard. Oh wait, you say they did that with the VIC-20 and Commodore 64, etc. How about putting it in the monitor? Apple did that?
Seriously though, why not. You'd still need a power cord but you could totally do away with the whole cpu box. Connect everything by rf and get rid of all the cables except the power cord. Never mind making the box smaller, just get rid of it. Hey, I just realized, I'm describing my laptop. Bottom line: I don't need no steenking box!
built in hotplate and griddle for 3D in-game snacks (running solitare turns it into a plate warmer)
Apple isn't bothered but George Foreman better start worrying
P.S. I am not the guy whose account I am posting this under. I just live in his house.
I am not the guy whose account I am posting this under. I just 0wnz h1s l1nux b0x3n.
Ooh - clever. Repeat the closing sentence of TFA in an attempt to look knowledgeable, using the sure knowledge that no-one will have actually read TFA.
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I like the idea of competition in this space.
I'd like to see Intel one-up Apple and utilize the same hardware for an open laptop spec. Imagine not having to pay $900 to get a 14.1" LCD repaired. Imagine the modding that would come along.
As a side note, I propose a new unit of volume - the MM. Not to be confused with the linear measurement 'mm' (millimeter), MM will stand for Mac Mini. So if something is 1.3MM, then it is 1.3x the volume of a Mac Mini.
That seems to be the new standard. We could use this with LoCps (Libraries of Congress per second).
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How do you manage to make a photocopy of a nice machine ugly?
Unless its priced WAY cheaper than a MiniMac, what's the point? Why not get the real deal?
The above subject might be a stupid question on /.
But still, buy a microATX board, get a suitable small casing, done! Why is it suddenly 'innovative' when Apple stuffs a PC in a small box?
I must say that after taking a look at the pics it does seem like a blatant ripoff. But that doesn't invalidate the earlier point: Why was apple's machine news in the first place?
Very lovely. It makes me wonder why Apple didn't think of slapping a big beige power button in the middle of the Mini.
Wow; redefining the word "blatant"...
No no dude, you're completely missing the point. Consider his European point of view on the mac Mini like most Americans point of views on transportation :
It should be large, have a lot of power, have a lot of towing capacity, 4 tv screens w/ 12 speakers, four wheel drive, and seat 8 people - so I can take it to the grocery store.
Blessed be he who reads this post, Cursed be he who tells my boss.
For a computer that seems to be designed to fit near your TV
Who said that? Apple certainly didn't.