[Eug-lug] Re: System 75

[Mr O]

The Koala Mini is made by Aopen. I've put a couple of them
together. The base includes a CDRW/DVD or DVDRW without CPU,
RAM, HD. Average cost is about $300.

The site is minipc.aopen.com . It does get a bit warm with a
Pentium M in there. They also have a newer model that supports
the Core2 Duo.

--- Ben Barrett <stircrazyben at gmail.com> wrote:

> That Koala Mini is a pretty cool alternative to a Mac Mini,
> though ;)
> Competetive with Apple's pricing, anywhoo!  And it comes with
> ubuntu.
> http://system76.com/product_info.php/cPath/2/products_id/169
> That's a bit smaller than mini-itx...  BTW, has anyone looked
> at the
> 3rd-party add-ons made for Mac Mini's?  You can build up a
> neat stack with a
> 3.5" drive, USB/FW hub, I think even subwoofer, all in the
> same neat
> aluminium squarish stack... it'd be nice to see a theatre/tivo
> add-on for
> the Koala Mini which included tuner card, 3.5" HD, device hub,
> etc... in a
> stack-matching case.  AFAIK you can have a short cable
> extending the PCI or
> similar internal bus.
> 
>     Ben


__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around 
http://mail.yahoo.com