<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><div> <A href="http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/257368/meet_the_mintbox_a_new_minipc_with_linux_mint_preinstalled.html#tk.rss_news">http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/257368/meet_the_mintbox_a_new_minipc_with_linux_mint_preinstalled.html#tk.rss_news</A> </div> <div> </div> <div>Seems a little expensive with a price starting at $476 for the Basic when you can get an entire system like an ASUS <SPAN itemprop="model">K53E-BBR19</SPAN> <SPAN><STRONG></STRONG></SPAN>laptop with a 500GB hard drive and 4GB of memory running an Intel i5-2450M processor with Windows Home Premium for $479.99 from a leading national chainstore. </div> <div> </div> <div>I'm expecting that you'd have to add the monitor, mouse, keyboard to the mintBox but I could be wrong. </div> <div> </div> <div>Where's the savings? Just throwing it out there for discussion.</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div>Aleric Nielson</div> <div>Etherport Computers & Solutions</div> <div><A href="http://www.etherportcomputers.com/" mce_href="http://www.etherportcomputers.com">www.etherportcomputers.com</A></div> <div><IMG id=sigimg0 title="signature image" border=0 alt="" src="cid:sigimg0@0886ddb67302abe8daaf8e0e814eea0b" mce_src="cid:sigimg0@0886ddb67302abe8daaf8e0e814eea0b"></div></span></body></html>