The CherryPal mini pc is a small, black, rectangular box with not much inside: just the processor, some flash memory and connectors. Nothing you would be attracted to, but just about everything the usual non-techie person really wants - something dead simple.
Cherrypal aims to redefine the concept of cloud computing and bring it into everyones livingroom. The box connects securely to the Amazon computing cloud, has no moving parts and eats just about 2 watts of energy.
There is an embedded form of Debian Linux (of course), but Seybold says the user isn’t exposed to it. The main operating system is a Firefox browser window.
Specs:
- 400MHz Freescale MPC5121e mobileGT processor
- 256 MB RAM
- 4GB NAND flash storage
- 802.11g Wi-Fi
- Two USB 2.0 ports
- 10/100 Ethernet
- VGA out
- Headphone out
The CherryPal minipc is available and will ship at the end of this month for $249.
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at 7:55 pm - 23rd July 2008 Permalink
Correction! The main operating system is linux. Firefox is not an operating system. I suppose you must have meant that firefox will be the only user interface.
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at 10:56 pm - 23rd July 2008 Permalink
Interesting, but that’s a pretty high price for what it really is… I guess its kind of a convenience charge since the people they’re trying to sell this to most likely won’t understand the specs side… And it looks pretty good.
~jw
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at 3:33 am - 31st July 2008 Permalink
Far too expensive for something so simple. Imo that is.
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Not really, I’m pretty sure they arent charging any further subscription fees unlike the other “cloud computing” products about to come out.
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at 5:33 am - 31st July 2008 Permalink
What does it do? Media Center? Nothing beats LinuxMCE.
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at 2:20 pm - 1st August 2008 Permalink
Too expensive, I could make a version of that for half the price.
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at 7:14 pm - 1st August 2008 Permalink
i’m confused about what it does as well.
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