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Meet the CuBox-I, a $45 PC that Runs Linux and Android

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While this is obviously a shill post by ArabGeek, I am actually interested in the $120 version of this as a possible HTPC.

I've also been looking at either the Utilite or the Trimslice from Compulab. It seems all 3 of these will do 1080 video with a very small footprint and low power consumption.

My trouble being is it is sometimes hard to get info from these foreign companies. Also, sometimes when they have a few spelling errors on their sites, I am not sure if they just are not 100% fluent in English or if it is a red flag indicating they are a scam and not what they seem. I do go back and forth between seriously considering one of these or getting a $200 slimline PC from Newegg or the like and adding a few of the extra parts I have laying around.

Previous discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6322998

political blogspam. It's just a regurgitation of the product site, with a confusing note about Israel at the beginning, which seems to be the only point of the post. Why not just link directly to http://cubox-i.com/ ?

A bit offtopic... but I was wondering if someone knows why that link says that is Palestinian founded and yet the link to an article of Times of Israel that says is from Israel. Not that it matters but I am confused.

well Isreal occupied most parts of Palestine in 1948. The Israeli state has be founded with the help from the UK government who occupied Palestine from the Ottomans in 1920 and gave a bulfour declaration to establish a Jewish state in Palestine. they started bringing jews from around the world and arm them to establish a country. the jews started to kill Arabs and committed mascaras and destroyed thousands of Palestinian villages which forced 100s of thousands to flee. there are around 9 million Palestinian refuges in Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. 1967 Israel occupied the rest of Palestine west bank and Gaza. the founders of the company are Palestinians not Jewish Israeli. even though they live in Palestine 1948 or what is called "Israel"

HN is not a place for your political propaganda.

So the Palestinian founders should call it an Israeli company?

I have no idea of the agendas of the CuBox founders, but given there are Jews I know who do not support the government of Israel, and here someone asked the question, I think it's fair to give an answer.

I think the Palestinian founders should call it whatever they want.

I know that Palestine, Israel, etc are hot button topics. HN has shown many times that it's not good to try to discuss it here. These threads never go well. It's a shame, because I want to hear smart people talking about a complex topic, but I absolutely do not want to read the hyper-aggressive bullshit that goes with it.

Here's an example of a fantastically un-useful comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6306567) "you must be jew or a CIA or Mossad Agent".

That's the kind of thing that kills useful discussion.

I hadn't gone into ArabNews' profile to see if he was spouting hate speech. This thread makes me sick (not in a hyper-aggressive bullshit sort of way, but a stifling urge to fire back, can't possibly be a productive use of anyone's time kind of way.)

Just four clicks away, "We need an AlQaeda facebook" I don't even know where to begin. Just remember America, you can either vote for the Republicans or you can vote for the Democrats. There are only two options. Upvote or downvote.

I seriously don't understand how you expect people to consider acting for your cause when all you do is offer it in a hidden agenda of some tech news. This is full of dark patterns.

The founders appear to be Palestinians living in Nazareth. My guess is the sentence's wording is confusing because the author wanted to work in the note about occupation. Nazareth itself is in Israel proper. Since we'll call something an American startup even if the founders are foreign I think it is safe to call SolidRun an Israeli startup.

I worked with Rabeeh (the CTO) before. He is a supper smart Linux kernel hacker.

He doesn't look very happy. Has it something to do because he is a Palestinian "in an occupied country" ?

maybe

Freescale iMX6 SoC ARM - does anyone know how much horsepower this has compared to, say, an Intel Atom or Celeron processor?

The iMX6's CPU is an ARM Cortex-A9. There are 3 versions of the chip that have either 1, 2, or 4 cores inside.

I'm guessing for a $49 MSRP they're using the Solo, which is one core at 1 GHz. Benchmarks for the A9 are out there if you want to compare to the Atom or Celeron.

This would be perfect as a thin client. Is it available anywhere yet?

yes you can order from the site http://cubox-i.com/

No, it is not available yet. The site does allow pre-orders "shipping by end of November".

what would you use Cubbox-I for? there are many useful way to use it

direct link to the product :

http://cubox-i.com/

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