It seems almost ironic that while are phones seem to be getting bigger, PCs are getting smaller. At least those that aren't hulking beasts constructed for raw power, for gaming and whatnot. Though not as ridiculously small as Xiaomi's Mi Box mini "set top box", if you could still call it that, this new MintBox Mini still tries to deliver a PC that is powerful enough for your basic computing needs yet small enough to fit in your pocket. Presuming, of course, you'd actually keep one in your pocket. The MintBox Mini comes from Fit-PC, a company that has been making these mini PC devices for quite some time now. In fact, this is the third incarnation of its MintBox line which started back in 2012. Compared to its older siblings, this "mini" is said to be a one fifth the size. The MintBox 2 measures 19cm x 16cm x 4cm (7.5 in x 6.3 in x 1.6 inc), so we leave it to your vivid imagination to see how much smaller this box really is.
Despite that size, however, the MintBox Mini is no underdog. Unlike most mini/pico PCs around, in fact unlike the previous MintBox 2, this one runs on a 1 GHz quad-core 64-bit AMD A4 6400T processor and is helped in the graphics arena by a Radeon R3. RAM is quite generous at 4 GB though some might think that...
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Shazam! What a cool little machine!
And to think I started out on a Tandy 1000TX: 16-bit, 8 MHz 80286 processor, 640 K Ram, 3.5" floppy (32 Mb hard drive/card extra option), CGA monitor and TandyDOS 2.7....
LOL! No wonder this tech stuff is all a blur...
