Ripple Look Revealed

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South Korea’s Ripple has released pictures and information on their new PC. The Ripple “Look” as it’s being called, is going to be launched in the Korean market sometime this month, and has a ‘Mini PC’ form factor, similar in size and shape to the Mac Mini.

The Ripple Look features an dual-core Intel Atom processor (no clock speed announced), 1GB of RAM, a 160GB HDD, and integrated Intel graphics. Ripple’s commercial claims that the Look is ‘lighter than many laptops’.

Although some have suggested the Ripple Look could be a Media Center PC, a lack of video/audio ports (other than VGA) sort of limit it in this regard – HDMI or Compontent would of been nice. That being said, the Ripple Look does include VESA mounting on the bottom of the box, letting you attach it to a wall with the same mounting interface that a HDTV uses. Unfortunately, the Ripple Look isn’t equipped with WiFi support, requiring you to use its Ethernet port.

Ripple admits that the Look isn’t an elite gaming machine, and gives it’s possible uses as a Media Center PC; a low-power consumption PC; web browsing; or document editing. Their commercial shows people playing 2000′s PC Game of the Year, Diablo 2. While you probably can play games newer than 10 years old, don’t expect to play Crysis on this thing.

It’s nice to see a well-made small form-factor Windows PC take on the Mac Mini, but this thing needs a few refinements (WiFi, HDMI, throw a GeForce GTS 250M in there). No pricing or release dates for the Ripple Look were disclosed in today’s coverage.