‘Computing Hardware’ Archive

Android SDK – $25 and an hour later January 1, 2010 1 Comment

If you’ve ever had an inkling to get into mobile software development, now is your time. Google has drastically narrowed the gap for wanna-be mobile developers to get into this arena with their opensource and free Android SDK (Software Development Kit). Exciting new phones such as the, HTC “Google Phone”, Motorola Droid, Motorola Cliq and [...]

Ubuntu (Dapper) on the PC Engines Alix 3D1 October 25, 2009 9 Comments

The Alix 3D1 is a small PC with an LX700 AMD Geode cpu. It costs $75 USD and can, with enough patience, run just about any mainstream Linux OS that you can think of. That is thanks to the AMD Geode processor, which is i386/x86 compatible, so you won’t need any special ARM distributions or [...]

Cheap Computing: The “DecTop” August 24, 2008 No Comments

Do you remember AMD’s effort to populate the world with cheap PCs? Well, AMD ultimately stopped manufacturing their “PIC” (a.k.a the Personal Internet Communicator) machine themselves, but handed the right to sell that device to Data Evolution Corporation in late 2006 who is now selling it as the “DecTop”. Data Evolution’s DecTop (Can be had [...]