Contrary to the claims of the article, the CX1 does support Linux. Additionally, the Cray CX1 is office-friendly -- it runs on office standard power, and offer noise suppression and reduction. The Appro box doesn't appear to offer either of these features.

Remember this text from your previous article on CX1:

"[T]echnically speaking, the CX1 minisuper is certified to run Red Hat's Enterprise Linux 5 and can certainly run Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10"

So, CX1 *is* certified to run Linux.

Clarification: Article says Cray CX1 comes with only Windows, but it's been available from the start with either Windows or Red Hat Linux.