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Intel Preps Mac mini Look-Alike

Posted by samzenpus on from the small-computing dept.

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."

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  1. Welcome to the age of innovation by The+Slashdotted · · Score: 3, Funny

    Long live AMD64

  2. Needs some mods for equality by DrunkenTerror · · Score: 2, Funny

    As long as they drop the MHz on the Intel chips, this could be a definite contender in the over-priced/underpower market.

  3. It won't be a Mac mini lookalike... by Mikito · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...until the mouse has only one button.

    I kid, I kid. I own a Mac myself.

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    1. Re:It won't be a Mac mini lookalike... by tomhudson · · Score: 5, Funny
      It won't be a Mac mini lookalike until it runs OSX. Guess that's where all the rumours of Apple working on Intel are coming from.

      After all, if it's running Windows:

      This isn't the non-working box Slashdot covered earlier."
      ... give it a few days, it WILL be non-working.
  4. Intel's killer application by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny


    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

  5. Re:market by Ingolfke · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  6. Re:I don't see a point by troon · · Score: 3, Funny

    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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  7. Re:Competition by dsginter · · Score: 3, Funny

    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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  8. Re:OK by tomhudson · · Score: 2, Funny
    Who cares if it ain't got no pictures?
    True. Once you've seen one BSoD, ...

    Unless its priced WAY cheaper than a MiniMac, what's the point? Why not get the real deal?

  9. Silver + beige = $$ by peekitty · · Score: 5, Funny

    Very lovely. It makes me wonder why Apple didn't think of slapping a big beige power button in the middle of the Mini.

  10. Re:Photos by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wow; redefining the word "blatant"...

  11. Re:I would buy a Mac mini, if... by Loco3KGT · · Score: 2, Funny

    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.

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