Posted on 06/03/2005 6:21:34 AM PDT by Panerai
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery then Apple executives walking around the Computex show in Taipei this week should be feeling pretty good. Several products were on display from local Taiwanese vendors that, while perhaps not exact copies of Apple products, were surely inspired by them.
One of the highest-profile such products was a small desktop PC from AOpen Inc. The computer was on show at the booths of both AOpen and Intel Corp. as part of an Intel effort to promote the use of the Pentium M processor in small PCs, although the version on show was based on a Celeron M processor.
The machine was almost identical in size to Apple’s Mac mini, and had the same shape and a CD slot in the front. It’s the result of about two months of engineering and design work by the company, said Gavin Lin, a senior director with AOpen’s mainboard and platform business division. The company said it hopes to put the machine on sale in September this year.
Among the personal audio players on display, several devices bore a resemblance to Apple’s hit iPod products. Two of the closest, at least to an untrained eye, were Tekram Systems Co. Ltd.’s iPocket and Luxpro Corp.’s Tangent line of players.
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Yeah, it kind of bummed me. The AOpen box was supposed to (originally) have an external AGP expansion bus for a 'real' GPU. So no gaming or HTPCing with this thing. It can't do VMR9 DXVA to save it's like.
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"RIP OFF is the sincerest form of flattery... or at least the most lucrative!"
No kidding. This is blatant as it gets.
Industry pundits say that the aOpen Mac Mini look alike is not going to be able to match the price of the Mac Mini, either... the Intel Celeron M and Pentium M chips are too expensive to allow that...
If by engineering, he means building another PC clone, and design, he means copying Apple.
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Small, cheap, and low-end. The more of those three you have, the more likely you are to get agonizingly slow shared-memory onboard graphics. This hits at least one of the three, probably all, so it would probably suck for all but the lightest uses.
The Mini at least has a Radeon 9200 with 32MB of RAM and AGP 4X. It's not much, but at least it's not shared.
well put.
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