Looking for mini-pc that supports Chrome browsing + 3440 x 1440 display resolution

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This sounds slightly crazy because it is, and I know there are gamers making voodoo dolls of me right now for having bought a honking 34" 3440 x 1440 monitor mainly for stuff that's not graphics or processor intensive. :)

The situation is that I use the monitor 80% of the time for displaying productivity tools--DropTask, Workflowy, etc. I'd like to move all my business systems (or at least almost all of them) digital, and to do that, I basically need a monitor that acts as a whiteboard.

I have a super-duper tiny office--it's literally 6x6'. My laptop is my main workhorse, and when I do heavy-duty graphic design, I'll be plugging my laptop into the monitor at the treadmill desk, but when I'm on the couch, not at the treadmill desk, I'd like to NOT be tied to the monitor with a cord but still able to see all my productivity stuff.

That means I'd like a mini-PC that can browse the web to bring up all my web-based apps at full resolution. But it doesn't really need to do much more than that.

I'd like the solution to be out-of-the-box as much as possible--and the smaller the better!

(And, yes, if you're wondering how I can have both a treadmill desk and a couch in a 6x6' office, I do have pictures. LOL.)
 
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($274.00 @ PLE Computers)
Motherboard: ASRock H97M PRO4 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($109.00 @ CPL Online)
Memory: Crucial 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($88.00 @ CPL Online)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($61.00 @ Centre Com)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB Video Card ($165.00 @ Centre Com)
Case: Fractal Design Node 804 MicroATX Mid Tower Case ($145.00 @ CPL Online)
Power Supply: Silverstone Strider 600W 80+ Silver Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($108.00 @ CPL Online)
Total: $950.00
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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