Dell Optiflex 780: the PC MacMini ?
Dell presented asmall form factor PC, Optiflex 780, selling it as the “Mac Mini” PC.
The specifications are close to the Mac Mini, samll form, with benefit of integrated powerdual core processors from Celeron 450 to E8600, 160Gb or 250GB hard-drive (64GB SSD also), up to 4GB DDR3.
Dell Optiflex 780
But if we look closely, this is *NOT* a Mac Mini killer.
From the ecological point-of-view, with a 180W power consumption, it is largely over the 110W of the Mac Mini. The size seems close (24×24x6.5cm against 16.5×16.5×5.1cm) but after a quick computation you will discover that this Mini PC is 2.7X bigger than the Mac Mini itself! And so there’s the weakest points…
Graphics are handled by crappy GMA 4500 (you don’t want GMA anymore, do you?), no 320GB or 500GB hard-drive, no RAID server version, Windows instead Mac OS X, and a price tag that is over the entry-level Mac Mini with sloer CPU, slower GPU (we could say GPU is lacking!), and no OS X!
It’s just a down-sized PC, but so limited…