[olug] Chumby Taking Orders for New Chumby One

[Eric Lusk]

Actually, I don't see a SmartQ available to the US for under $200 yet... they don't sell them direct to the US.

 I ran the Harry Potter books through a spell checker; none of those spells should work.



----- Original Message ----
From: Luke-Jr <luke at dashjr.org>
To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
Sent: Sun, November 15, 2009 9:28:01 AM
Subject: Re: [olug] Chumby Taking Orders for New Chumby One

Doesn't look very open. What does it have that a SmartQ 7 doesn't? Besides a 
rather inconvenient size...

RAM... Chumby 64 MB vs SmartQ 128 MB
Flash... Chumby 64 MB vs SmartQ 1 GB
CPU... Chumby 350 MHz ARM9 vs SmartQ 667 MHz ARM11
LCD... Chumby 320x240 3.5in vs SmartQ5 800x480  4.3in
Cost... Chumby $100-$130 vs SmartQ5 $100-$132

Also, the SmartQ hardware has 100% of its specifications open, so running a 
completely open source OS (including bootloader) is possible.

On Friday 13 November 2009 10:32:50 pm Aric Aasgaard wrote:
> Yeah, I was thinking that too.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
>  Eric P
> Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 7:35 PM
> To: Omaha Linux User Group
> Subject: Re: [olug] Chumby Taking Orders for New Chumby One
> 
> Aaron Grothe wrote:
> > Hey Guys,
> >
> > Chumby http://www.chumby.com is taking orders for their new Chumby One.
> 
> The Chumby is a cool little Linux Box with WiFi in it.  The Chumby one is
> currently selling for ~$100.00 (regularly $130.00) instead of the old
> $200.00 for the original one.  It is a cool little device with widgets for
>  a lot of things.
> 
> > I ordered mine today.  I'll bring it to the December meeting if I get it
> 
> by then.  More than likely I'll have to bring it for the January one.
> 
> > Regards,
> >
> > Aaron
> > 0-0-0
> > "The Journey is the Reward" - Old Zen Buddhist Saying
> 
> Aaron,
> 
> So I have been looking, and looking, and looking(!) everywhere for a decent
> quality alarm clock that I can set to wake
> me up to any old MP3 (i.e., w/the MP3 stored internally or on an attached
> flash drive).  Amazingly, there are only a few
> alarm clocks out there that can do this, and most of them are pretty cruddy
> quality and/or have serious drawbacks.
> 
> After looking at the Chumby One, I think I just found what I'm looking for
> (and a whole ton more!)
> 
> Thanks,
> Eric
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