It's a PC assembled from off-the-shelf components. It even comes in a mini tower case (not too sure how the shock protection works there). Maybe I'm biased, but I fail to see any comparison with the empeg. There are other PC-in-the-trunk solutions out there which seem to be a little better thought through than this - Hugo's original MP3Mobile plans for example!

He'll certainly need to raise a chunk of cash to produce these things in any kind of volume, though - not to mention FCC and CE EMC approvals and so forth.

Rob