[Arm-netbook] ATX motherboard

[Gordan Bobic]

On 10/17/2012 05:00 PM, Roman Mamedov wrote:
> 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. :)

Couldn't agree more. I'm managing just fine with a dual 1.4GHz Cortex-A9 
(Tegra2). ;)

OK, so I may have modified my AC100 quite a lot, but you get the idea.

> 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)

Add an Atrix lapdock for about $70, and you can even use it as a laptop. :)

Gordan