[GLLUG] Introducing the mintBox

[Karl Schuttler]

For when your unix neckbeard requires proper augmentation.
On Jun 11, 2012 11:01 PM, "Eduardo Cesconetto" <eduardo at cesconetto.com>
wrote:

> 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.
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> 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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