AOpen MiniPC Duo MP945-V
The AOpen MiniPC Duo cost a few bucks more than the Mac Mini but with features such as Intel's Core Duo this computer is a very worthy competitor to its more popular competitor. 'Innovations such as water cooling and quad-SLI have turned gaming PCs into space-hogging giants. But some Media Center PCs have taken the opposite route, shrinking to sublaptop proportions. The positively petite Mac Mini Core Duo has won the affections of many and inspired copycat systems such as the Blueado m5e and the AOpen MiniPC Duo MP945-V.
AOpen has offered Mac Mini clones before, but this is the first one to harness the power of Intel's Core Duo processor, giving it specs very similar to Apple's little white box. They're so similar, in fact, that it makes it easy to compare prices; curiously, AOpen's $899 clone actually costs about $100 more than the similarly configured Mac Mini. But if you're looking for a Windows Media Center experience in a Mac-Mini-size box and would rather avoid the complexity and expense involved in setting up a dual-boot system using Boot Camp, which would require purchasing a Windows XP license, the AOpen MiniPC Duo is about as close as you can possibly get.'
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