<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">You can put an mITX system for under $300… ATX/mATX for under 190. What's the point of this ugly box?<div><br><div><div>On Jun 11, 2012, at 9:58 PM, <<a href="mailto:contactus@etherportcomputers.com">contactus@etherportcomputers.com</a>> <<a href="mailto:contactus@etherportcomputers.com">contactus@etherportcomputers.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><div>But the direct comparison I'm making isn't it versus a desktop, it's a laptop that is portable for approx. the same price with a lot of extra horsepower, and all the portability. </div> <div> </div> <div>I'm not horking down on LinuxMint, a very fine disto(love it), just on the people that chose to price point this product. I believe they choose poorly amongst other products available in the market and their current price point.<br></div> <div>Most people will miss the OS savings when the hardware is priced as such.</div> <div> </div> <div><br> </div> <div>Aleric Nielson</div> <div>Etherport Computers & Solutions</div> <div><a href="http://www.etherportcomputers.com/">www.etherportcomputers.com</a></div> <div><span><sigimg0.png></span></div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 8px; FONT-FAMILY: verdana; COLOR: black; MARGIN-LEFT: 8px; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" id="replyBlockquote" webmail="1"> <div id="wmQuoteWrapper">-------- Original Message --------<br>Subject: Re: [GLLUG] Introducing the mintBox<br>From: Chick Tower <<a href="mailto:c.e.tower@gmail.com">c.e.tower@gmail.com</a>><br>Date: Mon, June 11, 2012 10:37 pm<br>To: <a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a><br><br>Oh, c'mon, Aleric. How can you question the price of a Linux box? It <br>has Linux on it, so it's worth anything they ask. How can you put a <br>price on freedom?<br><br>I suppose you could carry it from office to home or wherever you have a <br>monitor and keyboard set up. It appears to be much more portable than a <br>desktop PC, and even many laptop PCs.<br><br><br>Chick<br><br>On 06/11/2012 09:26 PM, <a href="mailto:contactus@etherportcomputers.com">contactus@etherportcomputers.com</a> wrote:<br>> <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><br>><br>> Seems a little expensive with a price starting at $476 for the Basic when you<br>> can get an entire system like an ASUS K53E-BBR19 **laptop with a 500GB hard<br>> drive and 4GB of memory running an Intel i5-2450M processor with Windows Home<br>> Premium for $479.99 from a leading national chainstore.<br>> I'm expecting that you'd have to add the monitor, mouse, keyboard to the mintBox<br>> but I could be wrong.<br>> Where's the savings? Just throwing it out there for discussion.<br>> Aleric Nielson<br>> Etherport Computers& Solutions<br>> <a href="http://www.etherportcomputers.com/">www.etherportcomputers.com</a><<a href="http://www.etherportcomputers.com/%3E">http://www.etherportcomputers.com/></a>;<br>_______________________________________________<br>linux-user mailing list<br><a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a><br><a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user</a><br></div></blockquote></span></div>_______________________________________________<br>linux-user mailing list<br><a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a><br>http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>