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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -72/+149just to get this out in the open, when you refer to Mac OSX aloud, do you say "OSX" or "OS Ten"?
I've heard this both ways and am curious what eveyone else thinks, consider this a digg survey of sorts.
vote this comment up if you say "oh-es-ex" and down if you say "oh-es-ten"
sorry for hijacking to satisfy my curiosity! - alarm, on 10/12/2007, -12/+47oh-es-ten
- steven401, on 10/12/2007, -9/+42Haha, fortunately it can run "os10".
Celeron Ms have SSE2 and I think SSE3 instruction sets.
http://www.osx86project.org/ - JasonPrini, on 10/12/2007, -9/+40It's "O S Ten" or "O S Ten point four" and soon "Ten point five"
- ActionableMango, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23Celeron? 40GB HDD? This thing better have a very, very low price.
- VhaidraU, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20It is OS Ten when you say it aloud. That is why the version numbers are 10.x in the Apple Menu. If it was Ecks, then the versions would have started as Mac OS X 1.0 instead of 10.0.
- jd72277, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19AN Mac?
- justinforeman, on 05/02/2009, -3/+19@mediamoguls
I dugg you down. "OS Ten" is the natural progression from OS 9, 8, etc. - seventoes, on 10/12/2007, -7/+20I say Oh-Es-Ex, because i love the double takes i get when people think i said sex.
- DrGonzo1184, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Seriously, this clone was around before Apple made the switch to Intel.
- drlha, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11"It's got a tiny hard drive because it's a laptop drive."
Smallest HD in the Mac Mini is 60Gb. My laptop currently has a 160Gb drive in it. The biggest laptop drive you can get right now is around 250Gb I believe. So that tiny 40Gb is all about cost, and nothing to do with it being a laptop drive. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11"An Mac Mini"?
- halik, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10I say OS TEN... but then again how what do you do with OS X 10.4 (os ten ten point four?)
- hyukhyuk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Apple call it "Oh Es Ten"
Steve Jobs Calls it "Oh Es Ten" in *every* keynote since he launched it.
IT IS "Oh Es Ten"
"Oh Es Ecks" is wrong. - thcobbs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Cost ~$300
http://www.atacom.com/program/atacom.cgi?SEARCH=SEARCH_ALL&KEYWORDS=MIPC_AOPE - Harrison88, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11Great find... two square boxes look almost the same. Who would have guessed?
- fulldecent, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10I pronounce it bee-ess-dee
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13It's funny, the AOpen design is just off enough to look really "wrong" and cheap. Good industrial design is not an accident, and Apple certainly knows this.
This AOpen PC is in the same knock-off category as "Couch" handbags and "Rolox" watches. - lateralus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Silly, there's a silent 'i' in front of all Mac products.
- drmangrum, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I love this quote: "There is no copying in China. There is just very close, intense study of the things that are sucessful in the marketplace."
So copying is just study?
A rose by another other name...
Doesn't smell as sweet. - TravisG5, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9From wikipedia:
"The character X is a Roman numeral and is officially pronounced "ten". It is the next logical release following the numbering of previous Macintosh operating systems such as Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 9. However, it is common to hear it pronounced as the letter "X"."
I say both... - Giever, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I pronounce it as OS X as opposed to OS 10. Sorry that I don't care about what it officially is, it is simply easier to say the 'X' sound after the 'S' than it is to say '10'. The 'X' slides off of the tongue more easily.
- KennMac, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8What the hell is a Ford Geo?
How about Geo Metro/Storm? - KennMac, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Macs should be treated as a vowel.
- subtle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Cam_86: "Yeah, i got a Aopen DVD burned in my desktop computer."
That's your problem right there. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6@aquarajustin
I completely see what youre saying. I think its just that OSX has been the first Mac OS for most current users, so they say is as it looks. - zoomie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5More like that old movie where Arnold Schwarzenagger and Danny Divito are twins
- goat2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6that aopen pc is OLD
weve had one here at our shop for like 2 years no lie, and its fantastic - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Reminds me of this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvXleDSkB-g - goat2, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8O REALLY
SINCE WHEN - Namco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4They make for perfect mythtv front ends.
- arbulus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Could be ford Escort. Older ones kinda looked like Geo Metros.
- r©ain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Wow... for all you "Mac is too expensive" people, these Chinese knockoffs are more expensive than the Mac Mini.
From minipc4less.com:
miniPC MP915-X Combo -91.8EX10.54W- Celeron M 1.5GHz, 512MB, 40GB, DVD CD-RW Windows XP Home Edition
$580.00
miniPC 915-X - SuperMulti -91.8EX10.53W-Pentium M 1.73 512MB 40GB DVD-RW Windows XP Media Center Edition
$789.00
MP945VX MiniPC 91.MPC01.5AW DVD-RW Core Duo 1.66 512MB 60GB SATA Windows MCE
$919.00
From Apple.com:
1.66Ghz Intel Core Duo
512MB memory
60GB hard drive
$599.00
-- beats the base model miniPC in Mhz by 110Mhz, proc/cores (Core Duo vs Celeron M) and HD storage by 10GB all for $19.00 more
1.83Ghz Intel Core Duo
512MB memory
80GB hard drive
$799.00
-- beats the midrange model miniPC in Mhz by 100Mhz, proc/cores (Core Duo vs Pentium M) and HD storage by 40GB for just $10.00 more
-- beats the highend model miniPC in Mhz by 170Mhz and HD storage by 20GB for $120.00 LESS
I hope this post makes a few Apple haters rethink their reasons for hating Apple. - Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Geo was a label for cars imported and resold by GM. For instance, the Geo Prizm was a Toyota Corolla. The Geo Metro was a Suzuki Swift. It was never a "make", it was just GM trying out some globalization.
- mitrovarr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Well, the Mac mini doesn't come with a monitor, and I'd say the 512mb of ram and 60gb of storage are pretty huge deficiencies (longevity in the face of future software development = nil.) Also, good video cards contribute to more than gaming; 3d accelerated desktops have arrived for both Windows and Linux, and it'd be silly to think that Macs won't also go that route someday. That being said, the mac mini is still a better idea than this thing - it's just too easy to build a mini-atx pc with noise suppression that would eat this thing alive for the same price.
- drlha, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4At least AOpen had the sense to put the damn power switch on the front, and not around the back! I speak as a Mac mini owner.
- panique, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I can tell you for a fact that the gentleman's statement is false. My family owns a costume jewelry business, and we outsource some manufacturing to various factories in China. Within a few months, exact duplicates, right down to flaws in the casting, show up on the shelves of our competitors.
From another perspective, "studying what's successful", well I think that's crap too. If the 'Mini was the biggest success for Apple, then it would have gotten Intelized before the iMac. - st3vo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3yeah sorry, this post is kind of ridiculous, those have been out for a while and actually aren't bad at all :)
- buddhistMonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"It is amazing how similar the 2 computers are."
How is it "amazing?" AOpen copied Apple's Mac mini lock, stock, and barrel. They ripped off the size, shape, port placement and packaging design. The words I'd use are "unethical," "unimaginative," and "cheap knockoff."
"Amazing" it ain't. - code_of_life, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Official Site: http://minipc.aopen.com/Global/
- nerditup, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3O Sex, Oh Oh Oh, you know what Im talkin bout..
- saska, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3One of the reasons for using laptop components in small form factor PCs is power consumption. If it's intended to be a media server that's on all the time, the 5400rpm drive is likely enough to stream the necessary content, but it uses less power in the long run.
- jamend, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4How are those the "first" pictures? The AOpen Mini PC has been out for over a year now and it's easy to purchase in North America (comes as a barebones too).
- arbulus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Automotive specifics aside, I do agree with the general tone of your comment.
Celeron processors are garbage. - drlha, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4From the Mac mini point of view, for $599 you get a box that does everything you need and doesn't sound like a hurricane in a huge plastic box. If you don't care about gaming then its a great machine. For $599 I don't think the "price premium" is that bad personally.
- yaknowit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"It is amazing how similar the 2 computers are."
Why is it amazing....it's a typical clone of a popular product..enuff said. - loup, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I say "OS X" if I'm talking about it in a generic sense, I'll say "ten point [insert version]" when I'm talking about a specific version of it
- bliz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2actually while it's made in china, aopen is a taiwanese brand.
- Radan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Well, even the built in speech synthesizer says "Mac-O-S-Ten" when you type in "Mac OS X". And to answer they guy who asked about how you pronounce the "Mac OS X 10.4", you simply skip the "X" and say Mac-O-S-Ten-Point-Four, or well "Tiger" :)
- subtle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Actually, you can get one with an Intel Core 2 Duo.
http://minipc.aopen.com/Global/spec.htm -
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