Mac Mini's Competitor: AOpen debuts 'MZ915-M'

MZ915-M XC Cube PC offers a host of new and attractive features, including more compact size, better performance, greater home entertainment support, lower power consumption with silence plus a more sleek design.

Employing the newer Intel i915G chipset, the new XC Cube Mini PC adopts the Intel mobile CPU of 479-pin socket, enabling the PC to demonstrate better performance on the strength of dual channels for DDRII DIMM up to 4GB and Dothan 533MHz support. The motherboard is built with 915G and ICH6 chipsets supporting Intel onboard Graphics Media Accelerator 900 (GMA900).

The model has one other major advantage of greater expandability with more CPU support (Intel Pentium-M up to 2.26 GHz and Celeron-M up to 1.7 GHz). It supports Intel Dothan CPU with 2MB L2 cache made with 90nm manufacturing process and Celeron M CPU with 1MB L2 cache.

Its superior upgradeability as compared with products from other suppliers on the market doubles the capacity of memory with two slots up to 4GB plus more slots for add-in cards (PCI x 1 and PCIExpress-16 x1).

MZ915-M's standard optical disk drive device (ODD) bay supports any combo, DVD-RW, and super multi-DVD found on the market plus fast Ethernet - Gigabit PCI Express LAN.

The new XC Cube Mini PC also provides the home entertainment functionality from the power of HDTV support (YPbPr) and HD-Audio (7.1 channel).

In addition to its versatile and powerful functions, MZ915-M XC Cube PC is ultra-slim and ultra-light. With dimensions of 106 (H) x 320 (L) x 200 (W) mm and a volume of 6.78 liters, it has a weight of only 2.6 kg (5.73 lb. net weight of bare system).
Furthermore, it has a sharp and stylish design with various I/O compatibility (with multifunction card reader for SD, MMC, MS card, etc.), according to an executive handling the development and marketing of the XC Cube mini series at AOpen.