if everyone doesn't just dump mini-towers and go for laptops

I think the move is more towards mini-PC, like the Shuttle and Asus boxes. At least, it is in my house (and I'm one of the most prolific PC upgraders that I know). Laptops are cool but the graphics almost always suck.

Towers are here to stay, however: how else are you going to fit a 3TiB RAID5 array for storing pr0n^Wmusic?
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