Basically, you could more or less say that the MintBox 2 is the successor to the MintBox, where the latter was produced last year in a collaboration between Linux Mint and CompuLab. This partnership has continued into this year as well, resulting in the MintBox 2 that will run on a Core i5 processor, accompanied by 4GB RAM, has a 500GB hard drive to boot, and a warranty that lasts all the way to 5 years, although you will have to fork out a higher price initially at $599 a pop. No concrete release date has been announced just yet, but this could very well be a decent first Linux PC that is worth owning.