http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/ Engadget Comments for Dell announces cheap-o Mini-ITX desktop for China http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/Jul 12th 2007 7:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/
Dell: "So, everyone already has a pirated copy of Windows, so we're not even going to bother selling it anymore."
Microsoft: "Yup, sounds reasonable!"

If you had said, "They should have gone with Linux to keep costs down and to break Microsoft's stranglehold on the developing world (before it's too late)," that would have been acceptable.]]>Jul 12th 2007 11:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/Jul 12th 2007 11:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/Jul 12th 2007 8:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/
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Those specs are just fine for surfing or small office app machine.]]>Jul 12th 2007 8:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/Take out the PS/2 jacks, add a dvi, and there; my little entertainment center unit. This is enough power to watch my movies and all the rest. I'm not interested in recording off cable tv stuff. Put in a bigger hdd. Very nice.]]>Jul 12th 2007 8:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/That would be a great application too!

]]>Jul 12th 2007 8:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/Jul 12th 2007 8:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/I'd rather keep the KB and mouse PS2 in a simpler machine, although you can never have enough USB ports!

They certainly have room for 'em in back!
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Aha! You're right, the connector must be for power.
So this thing uses an external AC adapter...that's another advantage!]]>Jul 12th 2007 10:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/


]]>Jul 12th 2007 8:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/Jul 12th 2007 8:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/My Inspiron B130 notebook is more than able to handle the basic stuff, and it's similarly spec'd to this machine.

Don't fall for the BS that you need an ultra-powerful machine to do basic tasks.

If you weren't already aware (and my guess it you aren't) they've been using less power to do this stuff for years!!]]>Jul 12th 2007 8:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/
Even with the lowest specs, this should run XP, plus most productivity software comfortably. My father is running XP on a P3-400 with 512MB of RAM, and he's never complained.]]>Jul 12th 2007 9:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/
I have a 600mhz P3 with 512 ram and a radeon 9250 graphics card which is used daily for browsing, email, bit-torrent, burning CD and very occasionally DVD. It runs itunes (albeit slowly) and I can watch a DVD film on it.

Admittedly it wont do many of these things at the same time. But this is an 8 year old PC and I don't plan on retiring it any time soon.


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Chinese people love brands though and I suspect Dell has a lot more prestige over there than it does in the US elsewhere. ]]>Jul 12th 2007 8:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/Jul 12th 2007 9:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/Jul 12th 2007 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/Jul 12th 2007 2:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/Jul 12th 2007 10:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/How large is the average dwelling in China? I could see Dell pushing a mini-ITX system if space is limited. Otherwise, $340 can buy a better system than the one shown. They're paying slightly more to make it compact.]]>Jul 12th 2007 10:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/Jul 12th 2007 11:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/Jul 12th 2007 11:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/Jul 12th 2007 10:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/Jul 12th 2007 11:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/Jul 12th 2007 12:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/]]>Jul 12th 2007 12:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/
Do any of you realize that this machine will run just about any type of application. 1.2ghz 512mb of ram. Put linux on it and you would have no problem running blender3d (except render time due to video)

In august ASUS is suppose to release their eee pc "sub notebook" for $199 it only has 800-900mhz 512mb ram, and I can think of hundreds of uses for that machine. Not every "Computer" needs to be running M$ bloat ware and the latest games to be useful. This would make a very nice MAME machine, or even a mail server, file server, web server, etc. Hmm or a thin client by removing the hard drive and substituting a flash drive, the sky is the limit with ANY machine.]]>Jul 12th 2007 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/Jul 12th 2007 4:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/Jul 12th 2007 5:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/12/dell-announces-cheap-o-mini-itx-desktop-for-china/Aug 8th 2007 6:56PM