Take an old, 20” Apple Cinema display (the original plastic one), a netbook and a touch screen and mix them all together. Stand back, tap with a magic wand and shazam! You have the MSI Wind Top AE2010.
That’s not quite fair description of MSI’s new counter-top all-in-one, but it gives a good idea of the capabilities. The computer part is actually a lot beefier than you’d find in the Wind netbook, with a AMD Athlon Dual Core processor, a 320GB hard drive, a superdrive, gigabit ethernet, a chunky 4GB RAM and an ATI Radeon HD 3200 for graphics. There’s also the mandatory webcam and mic, an SD card reader, and six USB ports.
Clearly this is aimed as a low-cost alternative to the iMac, and at $650 you could almost buy two of them for the $1200 Apple wants for the entry-level iMac. But it’s the touch-screen that sells this as a kitchen computer, and the all-in-one design is perfect for giving to parents who might otherwise tangle themselves up in headsets on every Skype call (I’m looking at you, mother). Is it an iMac? No. Is it a PC pretty enough and good enough for the living room or kitchen? Sure, and it’s cheap, too.
Product page [MSI. Thanks, Greg!]
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