[GLLUG] Introducing the mintBox

Eduardo Cesconetto eduardo at cesconetto.com
Mon Jun 11 23:01:09 EDT 2012


You can put an mITX system for under $300… ATX/mATX for under 190. What's the point of this ugly box?

On Jun 11, 2012, at 9:58 PM, <contactus at etherportcomputers.com> <contactus at etherportcomputers.com> wrote:

> 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.
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> 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.
> Most people will miss the OS savings when the hardware is priced as such.
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> Aleric Nielson
> Etherport Computers & Solutions
> www.etherportcomputers.com
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [GLLUG] Introducing the mintBox
> From: Chick Tower <c.e.tower at gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, June 11, 2012 10:37 pm
> To: linux-user at egr.msu.edu
> 
> Oh, c'mon, Aleric. How can you question the price of a Linux box? It 
> has Linux on it, so it's worth anything they ask. How can you put a 
> price on freedom?
> 
> I suppose you could carry it from office to home or wherever you have a 
> monitor and keyboard set up. It appears to be much more portable than a 
> desktop PC, and even many laptop PCs.
> 
> 
> Chick
> 
> On 06/11/2012 09:26 PM, contactus at etherportcomputers.com wrote:
> > http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/257368/meet_the_mintbox_a_new_minipc_with_linux_mint_preinstalled.html#tk.rss_news
> >
> > Seems a little expensive with a price starting at $476 for the Basic when you
> > can get an entire system like an ASUS K53E-BBR19 **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.
> > I'm expecting that you'd have to add the monitor, mouse, keyboard to the mintBox
> > but I could be wrong.
> > Where's the savings? Just throwing it out there for discussion.
> > Aleric Nielson
> > Etherport Computers& Solutions
> > www.etherportcomputers.com<http://www.etherportcomputers.com/>;
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