declared In $ 9 does not include shipping and the cost of the battery and expansion cards.

If you combine the idea of a small American startup Next Thing Co. and opportunities of the Chinese industrial giant Allwinner Technology will get 9-dollar Linux computer.

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Project of the computer gathered on Kickstarter two million dollars. To unfortunately, in 9 dollars does not include shipping and the cost of the battery and expansion cards, reports geektimes.ru.



This is the first in the world odnoplanovye the computer, which is so cheap. The computer created on the Open Hardware architecture. The Board works with the majority of peripherals from other manufacturers, support the connection of cameras and equipped with GPIO pins. The latter allows you to use it to create a different destination devices.

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CHIP is able to run Debian Linux variant, equipped with ARM processor Allwinner R8 (based on A13 1 GHz, 512 MB RAM and 4 GB of flash memory eMMC. Thus, 9-dollar computer more powerful than the Raspberry Pi B+ and corresponds to the BeagleBone Black on the main characteristics. In addition, CHIP has Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, which is not the competition.

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the Computer is running on batteries, which is a dollar cheaper — LiPo is 3.7 volts. Using adapters to CHIP connects keyboard, display and mouse that works on radioprotector. 9-dollar computer allows you to surf the Internet via Wi-Fi (the Chromium browser pre-installed), and play games and edit documents using LibreOffice.

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On this motherboard was also created pocket PC PocketCHIP for $ 49. This gadget features a 4.3–inch display, a battery and a small keyboard, and looks like a hybrid Game Boy and BlackBerry.

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