The plot thickens... x86 Mini Clone @ Computex (Score 1)

From the article: "Apple plans to move lower-end computers such as the Mac Mini to Intel chips in mid-2006" So... To meet this rather ambitious deadline Apple certainly has to have at least some fairly concrete hardware specs lined up. So maybe... perhaps this Mac Mini clone debuted by Aopen is in fact the next Mac Mini (or at least a preliminary mock up)... devious. You can't help but think that if you saw the pictures posted on the x86 Mini clone story (Sorry I forget where it is) they look amazingly similar to the Mac Mini too similar for a major OEM to "slip up" and give Apple too much canon fodder to sue them. And also if you read up on the x86 Mini clone it was resquested of the channel by Intel. If this story is true Apple certainly has to be talking to Intel on some level. So perhaps Intel is doing Apple's "dirty work" in slipping in ideas of what's to come. Intel of course benefits from MacOS working on x86 so that every major OS would now be running on Intel (and perhaps but less likely AMD) chips.