I have good buddy who imports whoopie cushions, ab-burners and the cigarette lighters from China by the ship load. He explained to me "There is no copying in China. There is just very close, intense study of the things that are sucessful in the marketplace." ....

We just got our hands on the AOpen mini PC, which bears a striking resemblance to the Mac mini.

A few hours playing with it under XP shows it to be a good little unit. Its a tad noisier and warmer than it the Mac mini, but all in all a good little unit. (Except it runs XP or Linux rather than OS X)

Our Unit came configured as...well; Here is the sticker onthe box.

Aopen mini PC and Mac mini

The AOpen has 2 USB 2.0, 1 FireWire, S-video, 10/100 Ethernet, DVI, mic and external speaker ports/jacks.

The bottom is covered in nearly identical grey neoprenesque material.

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