[Arm-netbook] ATX motherboard

[Roman Mamedov]

On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 10:04:51 -0500
Bari Ari <bari at onelabs.com> wrote:

> If the Solidrun Cubox is close to the ideal spec except for the lack of 
> open docs and a few other things, why is it priced out of consideration 
> at $139.99 to keep it from becoming popular?

Exactly, and the MK802 price is now down to $39, shipped.

An A10 with 1GB of RAM is enough for most uses that people would expect out of
a very cheap, small and low-power computer.

I am not convinced one absolutely has to have a Quad-core to browse the web,
play music, read books or even (gasp!) do their E-Mail. :)

And price is a very important part of this 'revolution' we're witnessing, up
until quite recently to get an ARM desktop or dev board you were looking at
something silly for $200 + $50 shipping. You would really have to be an ARM
developer to justify getting something like that. But for $39 everyone can get
themselves an MK802 just to play with. (and perhaps should :p)

The best thing that could happen to A10 is Allwinner and ARM realizing the
importance of good GNU/Linux support, realizing they could sell these chips
and devices not just as "Android TV boxes" but as general-purpose computers,
and to achieve that, working with the community so that 2D and 3D acceleration
would be fully supported in X11 using free drivers.

-- 
With respect,
Roman

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"Stallman had a printer,
with code he could not see.
So he began to tinker,
and set the software free."
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