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"HP Elite Slice is like no desktop you’ve ever seen"

Well, except for the Mac Mini, which it pretty much looks like.

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Except for the 35W CPU's - so you can get a real quad-core i5/i7... but yeah, I don't see it moving well at this price.

(at least Apple admits up front that they're dual cores, unlike almost every other use of lie5/lie7's...)

Enterprise guys will buy it without even thinking about it. You're either a Dell shop or an HP shop.

Yeah it's also macosx maybe you want to write for ios, if you're stuck with windows it's not going to help. Apple might be underpowered but you also don't need to use an entire cpu core just to run constant virus protection.

Just anecdotally, my 2013 dual-core i5 (1.3GHz) Macbook Air seems to run smoother and faster than a majority of the "new" PC laptops I deal with. I'm not sure if it's OS X or the hardware, but for a four year old machine I wouldn't trade it for any new PC laptop.

All the brands have smaller size models. For eg. http://www3.lenovo.com/us/en/desktops-and-all-in-ones/thinkc... too is tiny & better value for money.

Minis have no real official modules I guess. Lenovo made similar stackable thinNUC, but I didn't see it catching wind.

Didn't realize the mac mini was modular?

It's not, but that bit is irrelevant for 99% of use cases.

It's the entire point of this offering. I don't want it, but it is all about the modules.

With better specs, speakers and versatile connectivity.

Versatile connectivity? What does it have that a Mac mini doesn't have? Macs have twice the number of USB?

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