Marvell SheevaPlug – Tiny Linux Power Plug PC
Marvell has launched a new tiny Linux PC, the SheevaPlug, which is designed to offer high performance, ultra compact, green computing.
The SheevaPlug is a tiny Linux PC inside a wall socket power adapter, which uses 1/10th of the power of a standard PC, and it is about the size of a standard poweline adapter.
The SheevaPlug PC comes with a 1.2GHZ Kirkwood processor, 512MNB of RAM and 512MB of flash storage, it also has Gigabit Ethernet and a USB 2.0 port.
The SheevaPlug PC supports the majority of Linux 2.6 Kernel distributions and it can be plugged directly into a standard wall socket.
Here’s a list of the specifications.
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Memory
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Development Interface
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High speed I/O & Peripherals
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It is accessed by using a web browser, and it can be purchased as a development kit from Marvell for $99, although Marvell expect to be able to reduce the cost of the kit to $49 in the near future.
February 25th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
Can I load Windows on it?
February 25th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
Hi Rich
According to the manufacturer, Windows wont work on it.
February 25th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
So where do I plug in my monitor?
February 25th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
Tim, you don’t need a monitor for this. It is accessed by using a web browser.
February 25th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
The title uses the term “PC”, which is pretty misleading. This is a linux embedded device, suitable for maybe a printserver or a NAS device (with an external harddrive) or something, not a full desktop personal computer.
February 25th, 2009 at 6:43 pm
yes, but will it run crysis?
February 25th, 2009 at 7:58 pm
Yes, it will run Crysis.
February 25th, 2009 at 9:44 pm
To Rich, Tim, and Crysis,
you are all trolls
if not then you are idiots
February 25th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
To James: Ever heard of sarcasm? O and btw Crysis i think will run pretty smooth on it, as long as you can emulate a tiny windows environment and a graphics card. I think it’ll run with around 0,1 fps on lowest quality, but it will at least run faster than on a pentium II pc.
February 26th, 2009 at 1:37 am
Imagine someone did put windows on. It would be sort of funny a neat minimal design and then windows lol
February 26th, 2009 at 1:41 am
It needs a data-over-powerline interface for home automation, perhaps in an external module plugged into the Ethernet port.
February 26th, 2009 at 1:49 am
Will this tinypc, able to use a standard linux distro? (like debian or Arch?)
I would like to use as my webserver/email server…
February 26th, 2009 at 1:55 am
“Can I load Windows on it?”
Yeah, 3.1.
February 26th, 2009 at 3:51 am
lol@james
February 26th, 2009 at 5:10 am
Can I play RuneScape on this?
February 26th, 2009 at 10:26 am
Nice questions -.-
# Pigsflew Says:
February 25th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
The title uses the term “PC”, which is pretty misleading. This is a linux embedded device, suitable for maybe a printserver or a NAS device (with an external harddrive) or something, not a full desktop personal computer.
Its not exactly a full computer by it self..
And i doubt it will be able to run any java stuff..Lol
Go try some netbooks ..a much a better choice if you were looking for something small
February 27th, 2009 at 4:15 am
The software is Linux based and open source. it supports multiple Linux flavors and yes you can install open source java for java applications. pretty powerful device……go here http://www.marvell.com
February 27th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
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February 28th, 2009 at 12:41 am
You could use this as a desktop PC:
You need a few things to make it work:
USB 2.0 hub
a linux-compatible USB graphics adapter
A USB keyboard and mouse
USB sound card if sound is desired
Then it could function as a PC.
March 9th, 2009 at 8:32 pm
This runs on the ARM archetecture, not X86, so the only way one could do it is through qemu’s testing branch. and then connect to it using another PC with VNC installed.. An utterly pointless experiment, but potentially feasable.
Personally, ‘m waiting for the Doom3 source to get released so I can make a Plug-In Doom3 Server. A quake3 server on ARM-based Linux is likely already possible.
March 10th, 2009 at 7:25 am
thing is faster than the computer im on now.
March 22nd, 2009 at 12:16 am
That thing is amazing. I bet if you flattened it out and put some sort of screen on it with some sort of user input interface, whether touch screen or buttons, and put some music or videos on it, people might buy it. It could be marketed as some sort of portable media player, except not as usable while portabowling.
March 25th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
The model comes only with US power adapter ? Is there any model with EU power plug ?
June 17th, 2009 at 11:58 pm
Richard wrote on Feb 25th that a “monitor is not needed – you access it via web browser” but…. where the heck does the web browser shows up? in thin air? or in a monitor?
June 25th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
you connect to it by ethernet network from another pc to use the interface
July 2nd, 2009 at 5:04 pm
lol above post: run crisis or maybe install windows.
who are they aiming this product for ?
July 14th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
can i connect a wifi card? and can i make it a webserver?
July 22nd, 2009 at 5:28 pm
so u need to buy a computer in order to use another os environment. why not simply buy another comp with the desired os environment (it will cost the same if it is no frills).
this device would suit someone kidding themselves they have something useful or someone living in a telephone box who already has a comp and no room fr another.
September 9th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
Jay, I think you are missing the point.
I only have a laptop at home. That laptop has a small hard drive and is off when I am not using it. I also have a couple terabytes of media but don’t want to deal with a huge server and an air conditioned room. This provides what I need cheaply and is easy to use/manage.
September 22nd, 2009 at 1:03 am
you could use a usb->vga “adapter”. It can run windows CE . Non-tech savy people, don’t bother.
September 27th, 2009 at 2:02 am
Thanks for the info!
October 7th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
look at this on youtube.yes it will operate as full pc!
October 16th, 2009 at 4:43 am
I’ll take a Fit-PC2 over this any day. Far superior.
October 28th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
~5 watts. Personal use server. <$100.
Sounds unbeatable, especially if they can lower the cost to $50.
Perfect for home or very small business server use! I want one.