[TriLUG] MintBox

[Warren Myers]

I think the price is about perfect, personally - don't have the $500 at the
moment, but it's not a bad deal.

Compare it to netbooks, and it's in the same ballpark.

On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Bill Farrow <bill at arrowsreach.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Gmail <reginald.reed at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Interesting hardware but it seems a bit on the expensive side.  I'm
> hoping that
> > hardware like this drops in price quickly.  The sub $400 for the basic
> box or
> > even better sub $300 for a basic with no  RAM or HD would be even better.
>
> I don't think the price is unreasonable.  Last year I bought a Jetway
> Mini-Top all-in-one mini PC for ~$350 and ran MythTV and xmbc on it.
> The unit overheats and crashes on high loads, like when watching Hulu
> at 1080p.  The heat pipe had the CPU at one end, the north bridge, and
> NVIDIA GPU in the middle, and a noisy little turbo fan at the other
> end.  It was louder than my desktop (which now sits under my TV in the
> living room).
>
> The amount of time, effort, and frustration, not to mention the loss
> of WAF (wife acceptance factor) has cost more than I would like to
> think about.  Next time I build a media center PC I will gladly pay
> for something more solid and no fans.
>
> Bill
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