Mac Mini: VERY SLIM!

[[XC] Synthetickiller]

I find it funny when people start putting other's down. This is an XTREME forum and it's an extremely small PC. End of story...

I could go off on the fact that I probably can lift heavier weights than anyone on the forum, but it's not MY place to say that nor is it relevant to the interests of people here.

Duniek (I believe that's his name) has made some really small custom acrylic cases for SFF pcs anywhere from mini itx to pico itx. Just because it's not an i7 doesn't mean it's garbage.

Has anyone seen any other ssf rigs like this that aren't ATOM based?

[Wiggy McShades]

I have to agree with synthetic on his i7 comment. The 320m chipset is about as good as it gets for an integrated graphics controller and allows you to have a decent graphics processor (48 cuda cores instead of 16 like the 9300m) without adding in a third chip. If they had gone the i7 or i5 route it would of required 3 chips (cpu, sb, gpu) and as we can see from the board there is no room for a third. core2duo's are still competitive, but apparently no one likes them anymore.

[Insanity]

I have to agree with synthetic on his i7 comment. The 320m chipset is about as good as it gets for an integrated graphics controller and allows you to have a decent graphics processor (48 cuda cores instead of 16 like the 9300m) without adding in a third chip. If they had gone the i7 or i5 route it would of required 3 chips (cpu, sb, gpu) and as we can see from the board there is no room for a third. core2duo's are still competitive, but apparently no one likes them anymore.

Well, I'm in the camp of those that think the specs are kinda nice, but not at this price.

[Wiggy McShades]

Well, I'm in the camp of those that think the specs are kinda nice, but not at this price.

i completely agree, price is too high for the specs. I'm just saying there is a reasonable answer behind choosing c2d in this particular case, not so much on the price though.

[Mats]

The 320m chipset is about as good as it gets for an integrated graphics controller and allows you to have a decent graphics processor (48 cuda cores instead of 16 like the 9300m) without adding in a third chip.

I think so too. Is there any IGP that even comes close to this one? I saw notebookchecks benchmarks, they looked too good to be true.
AMD is the only one who could have matched it IF they'd bothered (NB + SB tho), but they've been lazy with the IGP's.
Not much difference between the graphics in the 2.5 year old 780G and the 880G

[Zorlac]

I would buy one for my home theater if they put a Blu-Ray drive in there with proper software and bitstream audio out through the HDMI. Also, would be nice to change the HDD to an Intel SSD. Would be a badass home theater kit.

[h0bbes]

I would buy one for my home theater if they put a Blu-Ray drive in there with proper software and bitstream audio out through the HDMI. Also, would be nice to change the HDD to an Intel SSD. Would be a badass home theater kit.

and imagine how much it would cost.. more than double the price i would say