The Cubieboard is a tiny PC that’s small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. It’s been sold as a developer board which doesn’t include a case. But for just $10 than the cost of the Raspberry Pi, the Cubieboard offers a faster processor, more memory, and built-in storage.
We got our first look at the Cubieboard a few weeks ago, and now the first prototypes are available. You can order a Cubieboard from the Cubies Hacker Shop at AliExpress for $45 plus shipping costs from China.
Update: Prices are now closer to $90, but you can still find some cheaper options if you order in bulk.
The Cubieboard features a 1 GHz Allwinner A10 ARM Cortex-A8 processor, Mali 400 graphics, 512MB of RAM (a 1GB model is on the way), and 4GB of flash storage.
It has an HDMI port, 2 USB ports, an SD card slot, and a range of other connectors and expansion pins for adding peripherals. There’s also a 10/100 Ethernet jack. If you want to use WiFi, you’ll need to hook up a WiFi dongle.
You can run Google Android and a number of Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, Fedora, or Puppy on the platform.
Where can I get one of them “WiFi Gongles”? 🙂
But it now costs US$115 delivered…
coke nail? 🙂
sata is a killer feature here
no audio out
no video out
HDMI will take care of both of those issues.
yes but with raspeberry you can connect an old crt tv or external speakers…
You’re way too wrong!
Check the real pics here:
https://cubieboard.org/2012/09/02/some-pictures-of-cubieboard/
IT DOES have the audio in/out jacks (both of them? Yes! :D).
AFAIK HDMI also provides both the audio and video 😐
analog video out?
analog audio out?