[geeks] The new IPC/LX, from Dell?

John Francini francini at mac.com
Sun Nov 15 15:30:38 CST 2009


This product looks very interesting.  It does look like they've  
targeted the Mac mini indeed.

I wish Dell would go to slot-loading drives -- it's annoying that even  
on their high-end/business/server-class products (Latitude, Optiplex,  
Dell Personal Workstation, PowerEdge) they still use tray-loading  
drives!  Apple has exactly ONE product that uses a tray-loading drive  
-- the Mac Pro -- and it's a fully-motorized tray, not the spring- 
powered stuff.

john

On 15 Nov 2009, at 14:02, Lionel Peterson wrote:

> On Nov 15, 2009, at 5:11 AM, Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>
>> Looks good to me...  bear in mind that the "loaded" configs have  
>> non-cheap
>> monitors, which drive the prices up considerably. Also, I'd stay  
>> away from
>> discrete graphics for cooling reasons.
>>
>> Peace...  Sridhar
>
> The loaded configs I was talking about were base systems upgraded to  
> faster CPU, discrete graphics, 8 Gig RAM, 500 Gig HD, upgraded audio  
> and Blu-Ray disc. I wasn't looking at upgraded packages.
>
> The base config plus an upgraded CPU and Blu-Ray would be a nice low- 
> end HTPC, uith room/ability for upgrades later, when Win8 rolls  
> out ;^)
>
> Lionel
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