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

[Kurt Keville]

Ha! Like the cell phones in Zoolander?
http://www.theverge.com/2015/11/10/9708870/zoolander-2-samsung-selfie-smartphone-product-placement

On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 2:48 PM, Drew Van Zandt <drew.vanzandt at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Pshhhh...c'mon, you can still see that with the naked eye!  I demand
> better magic!
>
> *Drew Van ZandtArtisan's Asylum Board of DirectorsFirefly Arts Collective
> Board of Directors*
>
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Greg London <email at greglondon.com> wrote:
>
>> 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
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Mobile: +1 617 285-0433   Skype: brough
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>> >>> Inc.
>> >>>
>> >>>
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