EDIT: AOpen Mini PC Barebones Sighted: http://www.shentech.com/1071565sn.html Found a la Froogle. Of course, it is a barebones system. From the same company - -- Celeron M 360 (1.4 GHz.) - $96 -- 512 MB laptop memory - $52 -- 40 GB laptop drive - $82 -- OS - Linux (free), Win XP Home $100 (dependin...

Right now a $999 list price iBook sells in volume for something closer to $699 and earns a small but positive margin for Apple. The PowerPC G4 in that machine has a typical volume price of around $72, or about 10% of the selling price for the machine. In comparison people like Asus, Quanta and Hon ...

In case anyone still cares, it looks like the UK pricing of the AOpen will pretty much kill it. The Pentium goes for 699GBP and the Celeron goes for 499GBP. The Mac Mini is much cheaper.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/01 ... inipc_win/

Apple's Mac mini will be reborn as the digital hub centerpiece it was originally conceived to be, Think Secret sources have disclosed. The new Mac mini project, code-named Kaleidoscope, will feature an Intel processor and include both Front Row 2.0 and TiVo-like DVR functionality. http://www.thinks...

Beblu styling is very attractive but very expensive. I also do not want multiple cases or anything with 40 mm fans. Further, Mini-ITX VIA CPUs and their S3 graphics are quite unimpressive, especially for Linux users. If I go with Pentium M, I definitely do not want to go with Mini-ITX & Intel 915 gr...

http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,123646,00.asp# Powered by a quiet 1.73-GHz Pentium M 740 processor, my $700 test system came with 512MB of DDR2 RAM, a 40GB hard drive, and a slot-fed SuperMulti DVD burner. Because this was a preproduction unit, we did not run it through our WorldBench ...

1. How difficult would it be to replace that blower fan with something quieter? 2. Given that the graphics performance is completely hamstrung (eg. no 720p playback), is the price of Aopen mini going to reflect that? As to your second point, I'm not sure I understand. The price comparison chart sho...

One has to admire how the Mac Mini designers managed to achieve the combination of quiet, cheap, and powerful. As any reader of this site knows, that is remarkably difficult to do. I've been watching/waiting since the May '05 Pandora announcement, hoping that the product version would be comparable ...

Very detailed review of the product can be found at http://www.sfftech.com/showdocs.cfm?aid=714 Note: Review goes on for many pages. Navigate to the second page and click the "Print Article" link. View, print and/or save the complete article. As an admirer of the Mac Mini and the Intel Pentium M pro...