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.
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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