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What would you do with a $40 Linux computer the size of a three-prong plug adapter?

 

Marvell Technology Group is counting on an army of computer engineers and hackers to answer that question. It has created a “plug computer.†It’s a tiny plastic box that you plug into an electric outlet. There’s no display. But there is an Ethernet jack to connect to a home network and a U.S.B. socket for attaching a hard drive, camera or other device. Inside is a 1.2 gigahertz Marvell chip, called an application processor, running a version of the Linux operating system.

 

More at the New York Times blog, and lots of suggestions in the comments...

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Even $99 isn't too bad, but of course, the more they sell the more the price will drop closer to $40. We could help that happen :)

 

Now, just need to figure out what to do with it when I get one :)

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I've had this one on my radar for several months (see my previous thread about a home server); I'd be quite happy with a 99$ price, but I'm waiting for the beast to have a French plug…

 

Yves.

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I think is good to know those new info thx spinynorman

 

those prices and new technolgy (I don't know if I'm correct) are always welcome...I hope this get here (my country) fast

 

those anyone has more info (specs, models, etc) about that?

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If you want more info, slashdot had a couple of threads about these things, from February and more recently May. Or see Wikipedia, of course ;)

thx! I didn't know it was using ubuntu...also the wikipedia links give you more and more links that a re very useful thx

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