{"id":2383,"date":"2013-06-27T11:08:31","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T15:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=2383"},"modified":"2013-06-29T05:14:50","modified_gmt":"2013-06-29T09:14:50","slug":"a-preview-of-the-new-mintbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=2383","title":{"rendered":"A preview of the new MintBox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Linux Mint 15 Olivia was released, CompuLab changed their homepage on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fit-pc.com\/\">http:\/\/www.fit-pc.com<\/a> to include this banner:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/tmp\/blog\/2383\/page.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/tmp\/blog\/2383\/thumb_page.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"142\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve always had a fantastic relationship with the staff at CompuLab and we&#8217;re working hard on the new MintBox, but this was a surprise and I wanted to thank them for doing this. There&#8217;s a lot of respect and admiration going both ways and we&#8217;re very proud of what we&#8217;re doing together.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/tmp\/blog\/2383\/mintbox.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/tmp\/blog\/2383\/thumb_mintbox.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"204\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Talking about which, I can already share some exciting news about the MintBox 2..<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Both CompuLab and Linux Mint reduced their margins (in our case we went from 10% to 5%)<\/li>\n<li>CompuLab is working to enable European customers to order via Amazon.de (which means no more duty\/customs tax and shipping costs included in the price)<\/li>\n<li>The MintBox 2 will be based on the Intel i5 and feature more than 4 times the performance of the MintBox Pro, for roughly the same price<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a quick comparison of the MintBox basic, the MintBox pro and the MintBox 2:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>MintBox Basic<\/td>\n<td>MintBox Pro<\/td>\n<td>MintBox 2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>CPU<\/td>\n<td>AMD T40<\/td>\n<td>AMD T56<\/td>\n<td>Intel i5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>RAM<\/td>\n<td>4GB<\/td>\n<td>8GB<\/td>\n<td>4GB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HDD<\/td>\n<td>250GB<\/td>\n<td>250GB<\/td>\n<td>500GB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Ethernet<\/td>\n<td>Gigabit<\/td>\n<td>Gigabit<\/td>\n<td>Dual Gigabit<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Warranty<\/td>\n<td>1 year<\/td>\n<td>1 year<\/td>\n<td>5 years<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Geekbench score<\/td>\n<td>1077*<\/td>\n<td>1615**<\/td>\n<td>7541<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Price<\/td>\n<td>$476*** + shipping, VAT, duty<\/td>\n<td>$549 + shipping, VAT, duty<\/td>\n<td>$599****<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>* Tested with 8GB RAM (the score on the official MintBox Basic should be slightly lower)<\/p>\n<p>** Tested with 4GB RAM (the score on the official MintBox Pro should be slightly higher)<\/p>\n<p>*** Original price (the MintBox Basic is now on sale at $379)<\/p>\n<p>**** Amazon price (including shipping and fees).<\/p>\n<p>The i5 CPU is a great compromise between performance and price, giving us 4 times the performance of the MintBox pro at roughly the same price. The i7 processor, in comparison, would have pushed the cost above $800 and only gave an additional 5% performance gain (8GB RAM + i7 CPU scored 7919 with the same benchmark).<\/p>\n<p>The MintBox 2 will also feature dual Gigabit Ethernet, an upgraded 500GB HDD and a 5 years warranty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Linux Mint 15 Olivia was released, CompuLab changed their homepage on http:\/\/www.fit-pc.com to include this banner: We&#8217;ve always had a fantastic relationship with the staff at CompuLab and we&#8217;re working hard on the new MintBox, but this was a surprise and I wanted to thank them for doing this. There&#8217;s a lot of respect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2383"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2388,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383\/revisions\/2388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}