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I can't find any 'cheap' products with those CPUs. The OpenBlocks A* looks cool, but they are asking ~ $600, and sell them only in Japan - however, they seem to offer free samples to open source developers.

If you can't buy them, then doesn't that mean that this *isn't* a slashvertisement?

From their website, "We do not sell the MicroServer series directly to consumers."

I'm sick of people Slashvertising these devices. You cannot buy them. Quoted from their own goddamned page: "We do not sell the MicroServer series directly to consumers.". Period, full stop, end of sentence. You can't buy them. Maybe the company you work for can buy them... presumably, if they want to buy many of them. But you, the consumer, the individual geek hobbyist, can't buy one to mess around with.

About sound:
http://www.plathome.com/products/microserver/oms/faq.html#faq-367

Seeing as the device is supported by Debian and netbsd,
    you can probably 'emerge' a Ogg support package and player.

Their 'for customers' page (here) clearly states: "We do not sell the MicroServer series directly to consumers."

In other words, this device is "available"... if you're a company rich enough to buy many of them. It's not "available" if you just want to buy one to play around with at home.

This is like those nifty SSD devices which are also not being sold directly to consumers.

These companies refuse to sell directly to consumers, presumably because they don't want to maintain a consumer-facing customer-service department. However, this is small comfort to those of us geeks who don't need a customer-service department...

For the link-challenged:
http://www.plathome.com/products/microserver/oms/oms_spec.html

Here's where I found more info: http://www.plathome.com/products/microserver/oms/oms_spec.html

This looks like a tough SLUG with some slightly better hardware.

Price is something I'm still looking for myself.

CPU: AMD Alchemyâ au1550 400MHz (Someone said this was MIPS)
Memory: 128MB (PC133 SDRAM)
Flash ROM: 16MB (User area approx. 2MB)

Looks like it's got a pair of Gbit ports and a POE-capable 10/100 port, a pair of USB2 jacks and some status lights. Also some weird RJ-45 serial port adapters, one for a modem and one for a console.

It's got a 12v/3A power supply, so it probably runs 30-50 Watts.

It's too small to house a hard drive. It looks like it's got a CF card reader built in, so you should be able to slap in something up to 8GB without any trouble, and maybe up to 32GB. Otherwise you have to hook something up USB.

http://www.plathome.com/products/microserver/oms/oms_spec.html