i posted this to the debian-arm list but it occurred to me that you guys might appreciate having a decent desktop-style system as well as something with enough RAM to do compiles of some of the larger packages without needing to run into swap space, as well.
joe (posting on arm-netbooks) has managed to get a sub-17-second boot to desktop out of the A20 when it's matched with 1gbyte 800mhz DDR3 RAM and a decent SATA SSD: now imagine what happens when that's 2gbyte 1333mhz DDR3 RAM :) enjoy. l. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: luke.leighton <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 12:56 PM Subject: decent reasonably-priced armhf system with sata, gigabit ethernet, dual-core processor and 2gb of RAM To: ARM <[email protected]> http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/pipermail/arm-netbook/2013-October/009073.html http://store.r0ck.me/blogs/news/9361679-cubietruck-is-ready-to-order-now this is from tom cubie who did the very successful cubieboard. specs look pretty damn good and pricing out of china is $90. i think this is the first reasonably-priced armhf system with interfaces that would actually like... be actually like... interesting? y'know? to debian power users? :) over the past 18 months typically everything else with 2gb RAM or SATA or Gigabit Ethernet has been $150 to $250 and in one extreme case over $600. to actually get all of those *and* built-in WIFI/BT *and* dual monitors (HDMI and VGA) for only $90 is nothing short of bloody miraculous. anyway. enjoy. l. _______________________________________________ arm mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
