$70 Mele A1000 ARM PC Can Run Android and Ubuntu Linux

[froggyboy604]

Currently available for as little as $70, the Mele A1000 is a small ARM device that runs Android but can apparently be configured to run Ubuntu Linux as well.

Bootable from the SD Card

The Mele 1000 is powered by the ARM-based Allwinner A10 chip, a 400-pin, 1.2GHz Cortex A8 ARM core with a MALI400MP OpenGL ES 2.0 GPU.

The A10 chip also boasts 2160p hardware-accelerated video playback and a NAND Flash controller capable of eight-way concurrent direct memory access.

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$70 is a pretty good price for the portable desktop PC for Ubuntu Linux and Android. The computer also seems to run pretty well for such a low price. This looks like a good PC for Office work, Web browsing, casual games, flash games, social networking, listening to music and watching video.

 

[Mascot Tom]

Not bad. Hopefully it's marketed as a portable PC and this isn't just some clever hack that could only be ran from an SD card.