The design goal has been to keep everything as light as possible. Nothing moves in any way, shape or form, yet it's easily detachable for maintenance or upgrades.

"We want people to associate the product with high quality and genuine service. In much the same way as people feel about Harley Davidson or Bugatti. Of course one of the best things about the Linux community is its accessibility to helpful advice. To assist in this Boost Hardware hosts the Linux Audio Users Guide."

http://www.boosthardware.com/LAU/Linux_Audio_Users_Guide/

Mahine (pronounced: Ma-hee-nay) is designed to allow the "on the move" music producer access to the vast resources available through GNU/Linux. Mahine, (a Maori transliteration of the word Machine) is fully upgradable and supports professional quality audio.

Using the tools developed by the Linux Audio Development (LAD) community it is capable of up to 2.3ms full duplex latency and has support for numerous soundcards via the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) project.

"We believe that this is the first of many Linux based machines that are direct competition to the embedded audio hardware market for Audio producers. This machine incorporates top of the line hardware and is totally upgradable. If you value your digital sound then this is a much more than just a reasonable option."