Cutting too many corners: Nimble's V5 mini-PC

Mike Langberg reviews the Nimble V5, a desktop PC the size
of a large paperback, and says that they've cut way too many corners to get the size down:

The V5 uses a VIA C3 Eden processor running at a paltry 733 megahertz because slower chips use less power and
create less heat. But the V5 still has a cooling fan, and the fan on my unit — while not especially loud — was still
noisier than many full-size desktops. This is a particular problem if you want to use the V5's microphone and
speaker, because you have to keep the unit near the keyboard and monitor. A conventional desktop computer, if noisy,
can be exiled to the floor. The lack of CD or DVD drive also hurts.

If you want to install software on the V5, you either have to buy an external CD or DVD drive, which costs about
$100 and up, then connect the drive to a USB port, or make a network connection between the V5 and another computer's
CD drive. Adding an internal CD drive to the V5 would significantly increase the size, but I think the trade-off
would be worthwhile. It's just too much of a hassle to add an external drive or tinker with Windows networking to use
the drive on another computer.