A $25 PC On a USB Stick · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by Soulskill on Friday May 6, 2011 @12:54AM from the when-did-the-future-get-here dept.

KPexEA writes with this excerpt from geek.com: "[Game developer David] Braben has developed a tiny USB stick PC that has an HDMI port on one end and a USB port on the other. You plug it into an HDMI socket and then connect a keyboard via the USB port, giving you a fully functioning machine running a version of Linux. The cost? $25. The hardware being offered is no slouch either. It uses a 700MHz ARM11 processor coupled with 128MB of RAM and runs OpenGL ES 2.0, allowing for decent graphics performance with 1080p output confirmed. ... We can expect it to run a range of Linux distributions, but it looks like Ubuntu may be the distro it ships with. That means it will handle web browsing, run office applications, and give the user a fully functional computer to play with as soon as it's plugged in. All that and it can be carried in your pocket or on a key chain."

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Re:OLPC Owned by Grizzley9 · 2011-05-06 01:47 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Exactly, this is little different than the liveCD versions of Linux that run off a USB stick currently. What's the point if you have to still connect all the separate things to it that make up a computer? It's like taking out the hard drive and processor of a PC and saying here's your computer!*

*you just need to connect power, display, input, wifi, etc.