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Anything like the Mac mini on the PC side?
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I had posted a picture of the mac mini on another (non-tech) forum, and I was promptly told that PC's that small have been on the market for years, and there is nothing innovative about it. I've tried google, and the closest thing I can find has no optical drive. So, I'm curious, does anyone know of a computer being sold that is as small as the mini, or is this really as uninnovative as I'm being told?
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Why don't you ask the people telling you that the mini is nothing new? Seems to me that the proof should be coming form them, not us.
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This site sells a bunch of the most commonly found tiny PCs.
Some of them have been around a while.
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I tried that and haven't gotten a response. Now, I'm just curious. Like I said, I searched, but came up with nothing. I was just wondering if anyone knew of any windows machines that small.
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Sorry T_F, I forgot to quote mastrap's post. You posted while I was typing that up, so I didn't see your link until it was too late. Thanks for the link. I still think the mini is a hell of a lot nicer looking than the machines on that page. Not a pretty looking lot, are they?
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Originally posted by ThinkInsane:
Sorry T_F, I forgot to quote mastrap's post. You posted while I was typing that up, so I didn't see your link until it was too late. Thanks for the link. I still think the mini is a hell of a lot nicer looking than the machines on that page. Not a pretty looking lot, are they?
Mostly they are pretty fugly. I seem to remember a cool one some time ago but I can't find the link any more.
They have been around more than a year though so I guess some people might meet the Mini Mac with indifference.
But when Apple sells several hundred thousand of them this year I suppose that might change minds a bit. 
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Not really a Mini Mac competitor, but the OQO is by far the coolest tiny computer in the windows universe.
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Originally posted by ThinkInsane:
I had posted a picture of the mac mini on another (non-tech) forum, and I was promptly told that PC's that small have been on the market for years, and there is nothing innovative about it. I've tried google, and the closest thing I can find has no optical drive. So, I'm curious, does anyone know of a computer being sold that is as small as the mini, or is this really as uninnovative as I'm being told?
Yes, Ive actually built a few that where even smaller then the mini using the the VIA EPA motherboard. But they still had a flaw, they ran Windows. Whats revelotionary of the mini is the price for a mac. It does have a nice style too.
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Well the Mac mini is the most affordable mac ever so that counts for something. Also if you take a look at those other PCs there was not much design put into them. Consider that several of these were not consumer computers but rather for small business, big business, used as servers..etc. Others were too expensive and still are so that is not really mini competition.
I would say the closest thing to a Mac Mini on the PC side is that Intel prototype
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The OQO, despite its ridiculous price tag, is probably one of the best "small tablets" out there.. Unfortunately the only company to do a tablet PC "right" is probably going to go under long before they're accepted for the way they did it... kinda like the newton, the OQO tablet will probably meet the same sorta fate -- a bit too ahead of its time 
If I had $2k to blow on a mini portable like that I'd get it *smirk*
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