[HH] $8 computer with Linux installed...

[Greg London]

Reality is becoming indistinguishable from magic lately.



On Tue, December 1, 2015 11:34 am, Kurt Keville wrote:
> We tried mightily to post this to the list in May but I suspect I don't
> have posting privileges... or that mailman doesn't like bcc or
> something... I no longer know where the price floor is for a full PC... I
> see that they dropped the price of the NVidia Shield $50 for Black Friday;
> this is essentially a Jetson TX1 for people who can't wait to get one...
> (it ain't
> 9 bucks but it will do a TFLOPs in single precision)...
>
>
> BTW, the Xerox CTO is talking IoT PDQ...
> http://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=16475605
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 11:30 AM, Federico Lucifredi <flucifredi at acm.org>
> wrote:
>
>
>> I have one of the alpha boards in the lab…. what is interesting
>> (especially looking at the new Raspberry Pi Zero), is the on-board Wifi.
>>
>>
>> Best -F
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Dec 1, 2015, at 11:27 AM, Brough Turner <broughturner at gmail.com>
>>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Just saw this http://getchip.com/ mentioned on the Battlemesh list,
>>> although I see it was also on Ars four days ago:
>>>
>> http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/11/remember-that-9-computer-for-on
>> e-day-only-itll-be-8-plus-shipping/
>>> and apparently on KickStarter at some time in the past.
>>>
>>> CHIP—essentially a cheaper, better Raspberry Pi—runs a 1Ghz R8
>>> ARM
>>>
>> processor and hums along with 512MB of RAM and 4GB of flash storage. It
>>  also has a full-sized USB port and a composite video out, so it can
>> work with older televisions.
>>>
>>> Fascinating!
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Brough Turner
>>>
>>>
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