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Neat, but the existing plug computers on the market (TonidoPlug and all the other SheevaPlug variants) seem to fulfill the same purpose at half the price. I've
by dangrossman 15y ago
Neat, but the existing plug computers on the market (TonidoPlug and all the other SheevaPlug variants) seem to fulfill the same purpose at half the price. I've had my 3-watt 4-inch Ubuntu ARM plug running nightly server backups and a streaming music server for a year and a half now, and it cost me less than $99.
- MatthewPhillips 15y agoI bought a SheevaPlug. It's a piece of junk. The actual plug is terrible, I would be afraid that it might slip out of the socket, so a floor surge protector is the only reasonable place to put it. This at least looks well made.
- dangrossman 15y agoMine certainly never fell out of a socket, and you'd want a computer to be plugged into a surge protector anyway. I've been running it continuously as long as I've owned it; it's not a piece of junk. It's a reliable Linux server that uses 3% the power of my laptop and 0.6% the power of my desktop computer... and it was less than $100.