Moneual pulls a 360 with its MiNEW M11 desktop

Some of Moneual's HTPCs may have gone unchanged in almost three years -- save for an unforgettable gold-plated, jewel-laden model at this year's CES -- but the company has now at least churned out a fairly eye-catching, if somewhat familiar-looking desktop with its new MiNEW M11 model. Unfortunately, while the M11 does slim things down considerably over the previous M10 model, it doesn't offer much in the way of upgraded specs, with this one packing just a 2.93GHz Pentium E6500 processor, 2GB of RAM, and NVIDIA GT220 graphics (in the base model, at least). Hopefully that also means it'll pack a similarly low-end price, but there's no word on that or availability just yet.

[elijahblake Posted Mar 29th 2010 1:16PM]

Does it come with a controller or a keyboard?

[OCEAN CLAK Posted Mar 29th 2010 1:36PM]

@elijahblake

Do you have to buy over priced hard drives, pay to go online, pay for WiFi and RROD?

[Dick Lynch Posted Mar 29th 2010 1:57PM]

@elijahblake I cant wait for the HTC HTPC HD3 LTE.

[coolbho3000 Posted Mar 29th 2010 1:21PM]

Does this one have the RROD too?

[Bandigolo Posted Mar 29th 2010 1:27PM]

@coolbho3000

First device ever to pull off the legendary RROD-BSOD combo.

[Shinigami Posted Mar 29th 2010 1:46PM]

@coolbho3000 Its not about "does", its about "when" ;)

[Ren021 Posted Mar 29th 2010 1:23PM]

yellow ring of death?

[jhoff80 Posted Mar 29th 2010 1:24PM]

I bought one of Moneual's HTPC cases myself, and I pretty much completely regret it.

It's not a bad case or anything, I just had money in the budget left over, so I got one of the cases with a 7" screen and IR built in.

The second screen causes a ton of issues in Windows because whenever I turn the receiver off, it tries to auto-switch the main desktop to the 7" screen.

And the built-in IR is iMon, and is total crap for Windows Media Center. Microsoft's own Philips IR receiver works much better, even if it is external.

Now that I got that off-topic complaint out of the way, this new one looks decent, but more like a mix of a 360 and a Wii to my eye than just a 360.

[Peter Pan Posted Mar 29th 2010 1:24PM]

I just saw the 360 in the headline an thought this was modded xbox 360. It looks kinda similar.

[JerkyChew Posted Mar 29th 2010 1:24PM]

What's the OS? With those specs the machine can run full 1080p movies in Boxee/XBMC or MythTV with no problem, including Blu-Ray rips.

[Psychosoldier Posted Mar 29th 2010 1:25PM]

It has a nice aesthetic to it.

[joebob Posted Mar 29th 2010 1:29PM]

A KIRF Xbox360 case that looks slightly better than the original? I'll take 2.

[HardToBelieve Posted Mar 29th 2010 1:51PM]

I'm in love.

[thaprinze Posted Mar 29th 2010 2:12PM]

Engadget, I envy you and your witty puns!

[Pookiewood Posted Mar 29th 2010 3:14PM]

IS that a Black and Neon Green Wii60?

[mtnDewFTW Posted Mar 29th 2010 11:04PM]

Let me guess, no built in WiFi and we'll have to pay $50 a year to use it?