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packman

(16,296 posts) Sat Jan 9, 2016, 12:30 PM Jan 2016

$79 computer

Fits in palm of hand and provides the basics -

http://phys.org/news/2016-01-palm-sized-emerging-nation.html

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$79 computer (Original Post) packman Jan 2016 OP

It's pretty. hunter Jan 2016 #1

iBall? /nt jakeXT Jan 2016 #2

Not tonight, I'm on the iPad. /nt pintobean Jan 2016 #3

Oh no... quickesst Jan 2016 #4

hunter

(38,328 posts)

1. It's pretty.

Reply to packman (Original post)

Sat Jan 9, 2016, 01:50 PM

Jan 2016

I quit buying computers long ago.

Repairable computers, or computers others consider obsolete, are essentially free in my community. I'll replace a broken or missing hard drive with an SD card, install Linux, and I'm good to go.

I did buy a $35 Raspberry Pi to play with. It's similar to the palm-sized computer in this post, but no case.

There's a newer $5 Pi that's just been released, but it's only got 512 MB RAM and one USB port. If you want more stuff, you've got to build it out yourself.

Such a machine is still powerful enough to browse DU and other sites that don't go crazy with the Javascript and video advertisements.

There are quite a few Pi clones, and similar little Made-in-China boards too.

I'm posting this morning on a little ARM powered machine running ChromeOS, which is google's version of Linux.