“Taking a second crack at the living room, Intel today showed off a concept PC that closely resembles Apple Computer’s Mac Mini. The chipmaker unveiled the prototype with AOpen at the Computex trade show in Taiwan,” Michael Singer reports for CNET News.
“According to Silent PC Review, AOpen’s Pandora device has a slot load CD disk drive and power button in the front with three USB ports, a keyboard hookup and a serial port in the back for hooking into displays. The computer also has internal wireless networking connectors and uses a single blower fan to keep it cool,” Singer reports.
Full article here.
SilentPCReview.com reports the unit will have a September market release date and has large images of the unit in their article here.
MacDailyNews Take: This one oughta perk up Apple’s legal department. It certainly is aptly named though. Pandora: afflicts all who “AOpen” it with the evils of Windows.
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AOpen Mac mini look-alike unveiled; based on Intel Pentium M, runs Windows – May 30, 2005
Sad. No new ideas in the PC market…
Let’s see them try to get a $499 price point like the Mac Mini…
Have they no shame?
I agree, very sad really.
I alos agree that it’ll be very hard for them to provide as good value for money as Apple can though.
That’s just…pitiful.
Pandora – how fitting.
Hmm, that box looks so familiar…
Hopefully they can stop them, like they did with eMachines.
So they’ve stolen a good design, stuck a honking great white button on the front and a crappy logo and turned it into a cheap crappy looking design.
Nice one.
In a way the idiots who would buy this thing almost deserve what they’re gonna get for trying to be cool.
Pandora’s box of litigation.
> … and turned it into a cheap crappy looking design.
I was going to say exactly the same… (soory to be a metoo
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Pandora’s box of hell for using a PC….sounds fitting.
What’s that giant zit in the middle of the front panel
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Seriously, if the Wintel crowd ever had an original creative thought it would die in a vacuum of loneliness in a matter of seconds.
Fan? We don’t need no stinking fan!
-Blazing CPUs-
ugly too
This is rubbish. It’s the same marketing trick as that rip off of the iPod shuffle. It will never be sold, and both AOpen and Intel know it.
Had anyone even heard of AOpen before this story?
OOH it must be FAST, it has speed holes in the top to vent the heat! I can’t see them pricing a good M processor near the Mini’s price point anyway.
yea… that’s… original.
take it to court.
ridiculous. What is their point? “here, you do not need to switch now? You can get the same from us?”
Idiots, it’s the OS first of all.
The only thing you got is a lame copy AND with a crappy OS.
They’re not speed holes. It’s water cooled – and that’s where you add the liquid.
Some audiophiles prefer tube amps. Maybe it’s time for a novelty in the Wintel world — your very own Eniac facsimile with real tubes! “Because bigger is better!”
MW: Respect, as in Rodney didn’t get it and neither does the Apple design team.
i am still waiting for Sputnik to chime in with a comment on how this fine example of Wintel innovation is superior to the cheap Mac mini on account of its inclusion of the futuristic serial port.
Yes s,
it’s an incredibly stupid (if appropriate) name for a Wintel PC. Or are they counting on the ignorance of their customers – i.e. on them not knowing the definition of ‘Pandora’s box’.
Chambers dictionary:- Pandora’s box: Any source of great and unexpected troubles
Wow. Sometimes imitation is NOT the most sincere form of flattery. Sometimes it’s just downright insulting. I’m glad to finally see that MDN was not consistenly committing some sort of bizarre typo with the word AOpen. Lo and behold they are some Neverwas computer company.
MW: “special”, as in “The bus the Pandora designers and marketeers rode to school was special…”
I read it was to be priced at $449 without the CPU or OS. The company sells kits to the DIY crowd.