Sorry if it confused your brain-grapes, but that slim, diamond-shaped thing in front of the keyboard isn’t an oddly-shaped flatscreen display. It’s a whole nettop PC by eMachines, actually. Called the Mini-e, this is the first system sold in the US to rock AMD’s new low-power Athlon II Neo processor. Probably not the most powerful nettop around (which should be fine, since if you’re buying a nettop, power shouldn’t be one of your top concerns), but it does look cool, considering what they managed to pack into it.
So here’s the list: for $300, you get a 1.7GHz Athlon II Neo processor with Nvidia’s GeForce 9200 integrated graphics, 2GBs of memory, a 160GB hard drive, and a wireless keyboard and mouse. The system comes with a Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit operating system, and connects to just about everything with USB, HDMI, VGA, S/PDIF, Ethernet and Wi-fi b/g/n, plus a multi-card reader along one of the edges. Flush feature set for a compact nettop, and it does sound pretty cheap for $300. Just remember to add the cost of a display to that price, since this won’t come with one.
Tags: Desktop PCs, eMachines, Mini-e, NetTops
