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Under the hood, these little guys have the guts of an Android phone or tablet which means they typically have ARM-based processors. But now at least one company is manufacturing a version with an Intel Atom Bay Trail processor.
That means it should be able to support Windows 8.1 as well as Android, Ubuntu, or other operating systems.
A vendor on Chinese eCommerce site Alibaba is selling the Meegopad Intel Quad Core dongle for $70 per piece or less… but you need to order at least 500 units to place an order.
In other words, that’s the wholesale price. The retail price will likely be a bit higher — but it shouldn’t be long before we start to see devices like this show up in retail channels.
This model features either an Intel Atom Z3735F processor with 1GB of RAM and 32-bit software support or an Atom Z3735G processor with 2GB of RAM and support for 64-bit software.
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I remember in 2008 that Netbooks, and tablets which cost hundreds more had similar, or worse performance.
This looks like a good cheap mini computer for watching HD video from the internet, or a USB flash drive plug in to the side USB port.
It may also be good for web browsing, and making documents, slide shows, spreadsheets, and basic photo editing like cropping a picture.