Getting your mini PC on

Since all those ultrapersonal computers we've been promised don't appear to be materializing anytime soon (where are you OQO? Vulcan?), it looks like we'll just have to keep on with the time honored tradition of making our desktop computers ever smaller and faster.  As of late, all the big players jumping on the small-form factor bandwagon,
and Ars Technica has a very nice intro guide to getting your mini on.

PS – Don't you forget to check out that hot hot hot
centerfold action.