Open-PC is the nettop for those who won't be constrained by you and your corporate wa

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http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/02/openpc-20100203.jpg (http://open-pc.com/static/open-pc/open-pc1-specifications.php)Nettops (http://www.engadget.com/tag/nettop) come in all sorts of shapes, from Wii would-bes (http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/24/viewsonic-vot132-nettop-review/) to keyboard come-alongs (http://www.engadget.com/tag/eeekeyboard), but they're all small, and most are running some variant of Windows. Not the Open-PC. It isn't particularly svelte (345 x 425 x 100mm) and it is entirely free of commercial software, with a KDE core neatly wrapped in a collection of free software. It was designed by the community, specifications and even price determined by a set of surveys, and by the end of the month it will be available to those who said they wanted it -- meaning it's put up or shut up time, Linux fans. Price is €359 (including a $10 donation to the KDE project), a bit steep for a machine rocking an Atom N330 (http://www.engadget.com/tag/n330) processor, 3GB of RAM, and a 160GB hard drive, but then again you can't put a price on stickin' it to the man.Open-PC is the nettop for those who won't be constrained by you and your corporate ways (http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/03/open-pc-is-the-nettop-for-those-who-wont-be-constrained-by-you/) originally appeared on Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) on Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).


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