PC world still playing catch-up with Apple Cube

By Ryan Block

Sure, it looks more like an analog cable box than a computer (or a certain acrylic-encased Apple, as it were), but the BeSilent is, afterall, (mostly) silent.  It features all the standard PC in/outputs including, interestingly, SP/DIF digital out (yet no DVI), a PC card slot (that's what we like to hear!), Ethernet, USB 2.0, and a 40GB drive, apparently comes pre-loaded with RedHat Linux (+10 points, them). It's also got a very reasonable starting price of ¥71,400 (US$660) for the embedded 600MHz VIA model, up to $1650 for the 1.7GHz Pentium M model.  You may not want to let your cat lay on it though.

[Via AkihabaraNews]

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