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Rick Rizner, Chris Manners
The petite XC Cube, in a shiny white plastic case with chrome trim, looks a bit like a swollen Apple Mini. The XC Cube measures just 12.5 inches deep by 8 inches wide by 4 inches tall--about half the size of a typical toaster--so it would fit easily in a small space or sit snugly beneath a monitor.
Unfortunately some of its features are diminutive, too. The system's 1.3-GHz Celeron M 350 CPU and 256MB of RAM achieved a mark of only 63 on WorldBench 5, the lowest score posted by a PC in our current collection. Similarly, the XC Cube delivered sluggish frame rates on our graphics...