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This somehow lacks all geek-appeal to me. It looks like a regular mother board. Not interested. The raspberry pi on the other hand looks cool. Strange.
by Derbasti 14y ago
This somehow lacks all geek-appeal to me. It looks like a regular mother board. Not interested.
The raspberry pi on the other hand looks cool. Strange.
- dguaraglia 14y agoI'm willing to overlook the geek appeal for the low price. I can see myself building a small NAS or media center with this. I wonder how difficult it could be to install an ARM version of Linux on it. I'm not that interested in the Android aspect of it, besides maybe using it as a cheap tablet replacement (they'd need to upgrade the Android version though.)
- Kiro 14y agoI feel the opposite.
- rbanffy 14y agoIt depends on what you intend to do with it. My mom's computer is due for an upgrade and she would probably be happy with a beefier version of this machine. Swapping the motherboard should be trivial enough and the PC would continue to look familiar, at least. She's used to Ubuntu and she couldn't care less about the ISA the machine is running. Moving to Android could prove an interesting experience, but I suspect machines like this will have outstanding support for other Linuxes as well and I'd assume Via has a lot to gain by cooperating. By now, most likely, someone from Microsoft will have called to offer some incentive if Via favors Win8 over Android on the platform. We'll see what happens.
- DanBC 14y agoYes, these machines are nearly ready. They need a little bit more stuff, and some nice cloud stuff set up. Put them in a little box, bolt them to the back of a nice monitor and they're great for most people.
- rbanffy 14y agoOracle will claim a patent infringement because the thing looks too much like a Sparcstation SLC...