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I'm looking for something to get into doing something to play around
with and have been looking at single board computer ideas, in particular
there is the Raspberry Pi, CuBox, and Trim-Slice. Raspberry Pi is the
most basic and costs $25-$35 and is more for learning basics, it has
256MB RAM, 700MHz CPU, some USB ports and and SD card slot for storage I
may end up buying one regardless due to price. CuBox is more advanced
with HDMI, Gigabit Eathernet, 1GB DDR3 RAM, 800MHz ARM CPU, microSDHC
card slot for OS (comes with 2GB micro SDHC preloaded with Ubuntu) and
an eSATA port all at $135 right now, it seems a popular choice for
playing with streaming, file server with an external HDD as it is more
capable of doing 1080p. The last one that I've looked at is the
Trim-Slice, this is the most costly at $249-$276 for the two I'm
interested in, it uses Tegra 2, it has Gigabit, 1GB DDR2 RAM, 1GHz dual
core CPU, single or dual HDMI (depends on model) comes with dongle for
Wi-Fi 802.11n though I feel I'll be trying to make my own work, it has a
micro SDHC and full size SDHC card slot so you can have one be system
(comes with 4GB micro SDHC preloaded with Ubuntu). Right now just
looking at this, and will probably wait until summer to do much with
this idea though it would be fun to mess with in my free time. --
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