{"id":9975,"date":"2011-08-01T15:53:41","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T15:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gadgets.itwriting.com\/?p=524"},"modified":"2011-08-01T15:53:41","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T15:53:41","slug":"same-price-four-emachine-er1401-or-one-apple-mac-mini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/9975-same-price-four-emachine-er1401-or-one-apple-mac-mini.html","title":{"rendered":"Same price: four eMachine ER1401 or one Apple Mac Mini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This machine at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebuyer.com\/267867-emachine-er1401-desktop-pt-nbzec-004#\" target=\"_blank\">ebuyer.com<\/a> caught my eye:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gadgets.itwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/gadgets.itwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/image_thumb.png\" width=\"404\" height=\"247\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For your \u00a3130 you get AMD Athlon Dual Core K325, 2GB RAM, 250 GB hard drive, NVIDIA GeForce 9200, HDMI out, and Linpus 9.5 Linux. The ER1401 also include wifi, 2 USB ports, S\/P DIF digital out, headphone out, wired ethernet, and VGA for a standard computer display.<\/p>\n<p>I probably would not have noticed it, except that I have just purchased a <a href=\"http:\/\/store.apple.com\/uk\/browse\/home\/shop_mac\/family\/mac_mini\" target=\"_blank\">Mac Mini<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gadgets.itwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/image1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/gadgets.itwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/image_thumb1.png\" width=\"404\" height=\"356\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Mac has plenty to offer over the ER1401 of course. There is not only the slick new OS X Lion OS, but also a Thunderbolt port, Bluetooth, 4 USB ports, twice as much hard drive space, memory upgradeable to 8GB rather than 4GB, FireWire 800 port, and an SDXC card slot.<\/p>\n<p>Linux is free, but if you decided to put Windows 7 on your ER1401 the cost would climb a bit.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it happens that the Mac mini, Apple\u2019s cheapest Mac, is just over four times the price of the ER1401. If you just need a small computer to do some task like playing BBC iPlayer on your TV, or running Squeezebox server, the eMachine model wins the value prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This machine at ebuyer.com caught my eye: For your \u00a3130 you get AMD Athlon Dual Core K325, 2GB RAM, 250 GB hard drive, NVIDIA GeForce 9200, HDMI out, and Linpus 9.5 Linux. The ER1401 also include wifi, 2 USB ports, S\/P DIF digital out, headphone out, wired ethernet, and VGA for a standard computer display. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/9975-same-price-four-emachine-er1401-or-one-apple-mac-mini.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Same price: four eMachine ER1401 or one Apple Mac Mini<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1137,1142],"tags":[158,1250],"class_list":["post-9975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-comment","category-gadgets","tag-apple","tag-emachine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}