Hand-in-hand with the recent tiny-laptop craze comes a push toward ever-smaller, ever-cheaper desktop PCs to complement them. The latest of these is the MSI Wind DC100, which tech site Engadget recently got some hands-on time with.

As with the netbook market, these “nettops” aren’t particularly powerful; the goal here is to create a tiny footprint — in space, in energy consumption, and usually in sound (which is to say, they’re quiet!). And those are goals these little wonders tend to meet pretty well.

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