People have been loading Ubuntu and other Linux distributions onto Android TV sticks for about as long as these cheap ARM-based devices have been available. But the Rikomagic MK802 IV LE is one of the first models to come with Ubuntu pre-loaded.
That basically makes the MK802 IV LE a small desktop computer. How small? You can fit it in the palm of your hand, slide it into your pocket, or plug the whole thing into the HDMI port of your monitor or TV.
But it’s powerful enough to run a full Linux desktop environment and handle desktop apps including Firefox, GIMP, or office software.
The folks at Rikomagic UK sent me a demo unit to test recently, and now that I’m done, it’s time for another giveaway!
This contest is for one MK802 IV LE mini-computer with a custom version of Ubuntu 13.04 called PicUntu. The device features a Rockchip RK3188 ARM Cortex-A9 quad-core processor, Mali 400 graphics, 2GB of RAM, a microSd card slot, WiFi, an HDMI connector, a full-sized USB port, and 2 micro USB ports (one of which is reserved for the power adapter.
RikoMagic UK sells these miniature Linux PCs for £79.99 and up, (about $130 US).
Here’s how to get one for free:
Leave a comment on this article by 6:00AM on Sunday, 12/29/2013
That’s the hard part. Here’s a bit of fine print:
- A winner will be selected randomly from the pool of valid entries.
- The contest is open to residents of the United States (or anyone with a valid US shipping address).
- If you’ve won another Liliputing contest in the past 30 days, you’re disqualified from winning this giveaway, so please don’t bother trying to enter.
- Liliputing writers and close friends or family members thereof are also disqualified.
- Make sure to use a valid email address, Twitter, Google+ or Facebook account to leave your message so that we have a way of contacting you — and make sure to check your messages after the conclusion of the contest.
- Once notified, the winner will have 48 hours to respond. If we don’t hear back within 2 days, we’ll pick another name.
Thanks again to Rikomagic for providing us with the MK802 IV LE!
Update: Congratulations to our winner, blacksmith_tb!
Nice little computer, would love to own one 😉
Nice give-away!
Love to win and will give away to a friend.
I’m here for the giveaway. But I noticed in the review you said the one thing that doesn’t work out of the box is accelerated graphics. But is there a way to install drivers, or is the hardware simply not there?
Well this is very interesting!
This is the best ever!
Got to love mini PC sticks
Sounds lovely.
Nice piece of hardware. I’ll try my luck at the contest!
Exciting news.. Put my hat in the ring also!
Sounds great. Thanks for all the giveaways!
Is that Linux in your pocket or are you just happy…
In for the win….
Looks like a great device, does it support HDMI CEC?
sure – I would love this.
Would love to win this.
thanks, need a smart tv
US only giveaways – boo! That signals that readers from outside of the US aren’t as important to this site…
Nice!
Fingers crossed!!
count me in!
Thanks for the chance!!
another project for my mind
Happy new year
WoW. I really want it!
I would love such an upgrade!
This thing looks really neat. I wonder how well it would work as a myth frontend?
I have one of these RK3188 devices, a TimingPower unit, but I haven’t
seen any successful install of Picuntu on that particular device. I
don’t want to end up bricking it or having things like WiFi not work.
That Picuntu OS looks more useful than android.
Cool
Hoping to win this.
Thanks for the giveaway chance!
watched your video’s for a long time, and constantly check the page, but this was the final straw to join the community here, thanks brad for offereing a contest, you are awesome and keep up the good work man!
MIne.
Hoping to vvin it.
It’s more versatile than Chromecast.
This would be great to win.
I’ve been wanting to try one of these out for a while.
Always wanted one of these
Linux on Android tv stick… looks promising. I hope to get this device.
I want in. 😎
I love RK3188!
My, what a lovely dongle!
Wonderful device for a mini PC. Thanks.
I’ve had my eye on one of these for a while. Linux Edition, yes please!
I’d love one of these! Played with an earlier Android version, an Ubuntu derivative would be very cool !! Count me in.
Good luck!
Would love to try one of these things!
I wonder if it supports Miracast?
wow, cool gadget …
It looks like a terrific computer.
Cool, maybe I can win this time!
Been thinking about getting one of these for ages…. 🙂
Eye catching comment!
I’m in for a chance!
Well, Santa did not listen to me for “Tronsmart T1000 Miracast wireless display adapter “. Lets see If I get this as new year gift.
That looks pretty awesome, I remember picking up my 1st usb stick 🙂
would love to show this off and use it for work!
Linux on a portable gumstick ftw 🙂
can’t wait!
awesome!
Sweet
Would be awesome to travel with; send one my way and I’ll let you know how it goes.
Here’s to trying to win another contest!
I got a tablet for Christmas… It has a single core A8 processor and 512MB of ram. The screen is 9 inches (sweet) with a 800×480 resolution (ugh) and if you turn it 10 degrees in any direction, it’s like looking at a photo negative. It’s never leaving the house because its battery life is so poor, I have to leave it plugged in if I want to use it for any considerable length of time. Too bad, since it has an absolutely fantastic metallic blue finish on it. Still, it has served its purpose of making me want a good ARM device.
Awesome, would be nice for our TV
Great present for Christmas!!!
Sounds like it has lots of possibilities.
I’d really like to have one!
I have been tempted to pick up a stick and get ubuntu running on it, but I wouldn’t say no to one preloaded!
Looks like a fun piece of hardware. Count me in.
Pick me. Awesome giveaways for the end of the year…thanks!
These little computers are really cool! I would love to win one to try it out!
Happy new year to all liliputing geeks !
I’d love to have one of these Quad-Arm devices.
Thanks for the giveaway! Hopefully there will be more companies that will explicitly support Ubuntu on their HDMI sticks and we’ll see more giveaways like this in the future.
I would like to have one.
Would make a nice Christmas present. Would make a great one for me to replace my computer that died andwould mean i got something under the tree besides a pair of gloves..
Thanks for all your work.
Best XBMC ever !
I need one
This will turn my TV into a full fledged LINUX workstation!!! Woho!!! 😀
Awesome, been looking at these.
You gotta love this time of year at Liliputing. I’m in the hunt.
Good review, thanks for the information
gonna have 111111111111111111111111
In for the win
Winner winner!
Pick me, pick me!
Linux on a stick — cool!!!!
Thanks for doing this!
I’ll be glad to participate.
Looking forward to see my Gimp files in my TV.
Ubuntu on a mini pc nice
I wonder when someone is going to come out with one of these micro PCs that gets both power and ethernet off of an MHL + Ethernet over HDMI.
You can never be too rich, too thin, or have too many picoputers.
Pick me! Santa’s not gone yet.
Happy me if I win.
Yes, I would like it!
Merry Christmas. Santa didn’t bring me anything.
Would love to try it out!
This looks like a very handy device
Late Christmas present for myself maybe? Liliputing is awesome.
Would be sweet to win this!
I reallyyyyyy need one!
Happy New Year everyone!
Pick me!
Sure I’ll take it. Happy New Year, everyone!
Wow! A holiday giveaway extravaganza! I’d love to have a Linux flavored mini PC! Thanks so much for the giveaways!
I’m in! Thanks, Brad. Happy New Year!
It would be nice to win this.
Nicce little gadget– count me in.
Sweet!!
Hooray! The neatest thing would be, being able to compute from where I watch my tv as well! Less walking up and down stairs to read the news on a computer. Old bones are old.
I would love to get this device and run archlinux for ARM on it !
Thank you for a wonderful and informative site
Yeah. Would be Nice to Get This 😀
Can I please win? I have wanted one of these for while
Want one
I COMMAND SUCH A STICK FOR USE IN MY BLACK MARKET FURNITURE PORNOGRAPHY BUSINESS
Looks great, thanks for all the giveaways.
Add me to the list please.
Sounds like a nice xubuntu or !# box …
It would be perfect for building a mediacenter and attach it to the tv!
I want this …. curious what this can do!!!
This would make the perfect icing on the cake (not a lie…) of this Christmas.
BTW, Thanks for giving these review units away. And I love the site…and I’m not just sucking up, I just don’t say thanks as often as I should.
Want it, need it, send it!
Thank you!
In for the win!
Have desperately wanting one of these for a while. Every time I almost have the money something happens (car, daycare, Dr. etc ). Winning one is probably the only way I will get one anytime soon (unless the kids stop getting sick, needing diapers, eating or suddenly turn 21 and graduate from college).
Let’s see if I can get this one!
A very nice Christmas gift.
Looks like a fun device to test out!
I would love to have it!
I thought this was a small pool.
That’s the proper size for mini computers!
I would like to try the rikomagic. I have a tronsmart 908.
Me…Me… Me…
Fun little device. These Rockchip CPUs are great values.
a good opportunity to try picuntu !!!
Ok, hope to get that one,third time is a charm 😀
I’m hoping to see some proper hardware acceleration out of those Mali GPU cores. Still, based on the older versions I’ve messed with, this is probably reasonably usable as a silent, low power desktop.
It might be a bright Christmas after all…
OK, I joined Disqus. Will that allow you to contact us via email?
very nice
Pel meu churri!
Here is my minicomment!
great thing
Happy New Year.
a must have
Sound like a nice piece of hardware. Toss my hat in for one!
Oohh, I’d love to get my hands on one of those Ubuntu stick computers.
I look forward to getting my hands on one of these. The 1st thing I’ll do to it, is to get KDE running on it. Cheers
Man I hope I win this one!
The fun keeps coming!
Three giveaways in one month? Exciting.
I like these drawings. I hope I win.
Thanks
I like to take it.
Hope I win this little beast this time! Thanks for the give away!
One of the best out there!
I trust that your selection will be random but let me butter up anyway. Liliputing is the best source for low cost and mobile computing that I have come across. I liked the netbooknews people but Liliputing is way more consistent and covers exactly the devices I want to hear about. Your quick on new devices and I really enjoy your reviews. I have been following Liliputing under Twitter for a while (I just created a new account for security purposes, not for this giveaway :)). Good luck everyone!
Unicorns!!!!
Haven’t won anything yet but I’ll try again!
I would love to use this as a mini home server 🙂
Here goes nothing…
Thanks for the chance though…. 🙂
me please
The powerful minicomputer made of arm is in the palm!
What an awesome mini computer!
and the winner is…… me!
I like Liliputing.
Awesome tech!
I’d like one of these.
It’d be fun to try this…
Thanking you in advance!
my kid would love this….please ……..thanks
Pick me
need one !
I would love to have one
This would be perfect for replacing my aging mk802II.
This would be great to win as I gave my mk808b away as a gift. Thanks for the opportunity.
Looks interesting, would love to try this thing out!!!
I’ll try.
Pick me, please! I need it so bad!
Oooh, I’d love one of these!
Very cool. Great job with the site, Brad.
you are awesome!
let try to win this one 😉
Sounds interesting. I might actually get one if I don’t win.
Well, maybe better luck this time.
Would be nice… Thanks for the contest opportunity!
Could be useful
Would be fun liliputing with this giveaway!
I’d like to try a TV stick that wasn’t native Android. [email protected]
I’ll take it!
Sounds like worth a shot.
Happy GNU Year! I want it!
I’d love to have this to try/use in my classroom. Our old XP labs are switching to Ubuntu anyway, so it would be familiar to the kiddos.
Happy New Gear!
My MK802+ was great until it ate itself when I factory reset it. I would love to try the new model out.
Pick me!
Happy Holidays
probably not my lucky day but oh well!
Looks promising!
Love these devices. It’s funny more Web bloggers don’t feature these deceives.
will it run fldigi
Shameless grovel- I’d love to win this! Happy holidays!
😀 Would love this! Happy Holidays!
I’ve been wanting one of these for the longest time, just never knew which one to buy.
Many thanks, liliputing giveaways are awesome!
I want to test it. I have shipping address in US.
giveaways are awesome, but i never win
Many thanks for the contest!
Wow,I want this! Heck yeah…count me in please! Thanks
Sure.
Been wanting one of these for a while, Hope i win!
WANT!
Yo quiero Taco Bell…
I’m Canadian with two sisters in the USA who I can ship to thank goodness. Please Brad, open your contests up to CANADIANS. We read your articles too!
I’ve always wanted to try one of these Android sticks.
Hope I am lucky… I do have a US address.
I would like it
I want one
Thanks
I hope I win!
This sounds quite interesting. Many things you can do.
US only, i have friends in the US , that would let me use theirs, but why do we have to jump through hoops. I would love to win it.
yep yep
Hi Brad, Thank you for posting the machine for a free giveaway! I come to your site on a daily basis and love the information that you list on your site. Also, I am just outside of Philadelphia, so someday I would like to buy you lunch or a get a bite to eat at a local coffeehouse with you, to thank you for the work that you put into the site. Just shoot me an email. Thank you!
I want!
Interesting little doo hickey… seems very useful
gimme gimme gimmmeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I never win these
Me too please.
Me please!
Splendid. Not a resident of the United States, but one with a valid US shipping address here. Merry Christmas, everyone!
Pls give it 2 me. I luv ur articles informing abt these little sippers.
thanks, let me win!!!
me me me me me!
Put me in boss
I would like it, please.
Bleep Bloop
I hope I win 🙂
Great newsfeed. Count me in on the contest.
Yes please! I would love one of these to run a few scripts.
sounds awesome
I am leaving a comment because liliputing has the only commenting system not totally broken on my phone for some reason. Also because I need that Android stick! 🙂
Neato!
Liliputing is the best website on the internet!!!!! I visit this website almost everyday! The only thing that could make my web browsing experience any better then your website already has, would be to win this amazing piece of computing hardware!
Would love this!
Nice!!!
Sounds good to me. 😉
sounds like fun
This would be interesting to mess around with.
Interesting product…
I’d like win this!
Merry chritsmas to me!!!
I want it now!!!
just what i need for the new year,thanks
I have no idea how well these little PC sticks work, but it would be fun to find out!
it would be awesome to be the winner of this linux mini PC stick thing…
Okay, I want this for my entertainment center!
me please!
That looks like an awesome device
Lo quiero, por favor tiene que ser mio. Gracias Liliputing
Hope I get picked.
neat!
Cool!
Looks like a great toy to play with!
Another give away awesome
Would love to get one of these. Thanks for having the give away.
Yes, please.
Thanks in advance!
without bad luck i’d have no luck at all
Most Splendid!
Would be great to use this for an embedded Linux design skill refresh.
Sure would like one