The World’s Most Energy Efficient Linux PC – The Cherrypal Cloud PC
Posted 19 Jun. 2008 8:00 AM in Linux by Roland Hutchinson
Check out this new tiny Linux PC which uses a tiny two watts of power, the Cherrypal Cloud PC.
This tiny Linux PC features a Freescale 400MHZ MPC5121e mobileGT processor, there are also no moving parts in the PC which helped keep the power consumption down.
The Cherrypal features 4GB of NAND flash memory instead of a regular hard drive.
Memory comes in the form of 256MB of RAM , there is also built in 802.11b/g WiFi, two USB ports, a VGA port and Ethernet.
The Cherrypal will run a tweaked version of Debian.
There is no word on pricing or availability as yet, but according to the manufacturer they intend to make it the most affordable on the market.
via Engadget
June 19th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
nice..when will this be available for buying?
June 19th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Cool hardware, would be nice to run a small webserver/wifi access point at home. Only wondering what it will cost.
June 19th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
Hi Guys
Unfortunately there are not details on what it will retail for as yet, I am interested myself, so as soon as I find out I will do an update and let you know
June 19th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
cool, i made one like that from a old laptop
June 19th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
Interesting product,
cheaper, silent, rudged (no moving part) and maybe more efficient, very more fast than the low configuration with XP (256MB RAM…(CPU @1.8Mhz)) I have at work.
‘256MB RAM’
which RAM please ?
an old PC100 / PC133, or some more fast DDR2 (DDR/DDR3) ?
June 19th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
Hi Ranjay
I am not sure on the RAM, I will check on that and update the post when I find out.
cheers
June 30th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
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July 14th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
Looks like there’s more than enough room on top of that to imbed a solar panel big enough to generate the 2 watts. You’d only need a square panel about 5″ by 5″, and that’s being generous – you could probably get it with a 4″ by 4″ panel. Mount the panel right on top of it, and wire it up to only use the mains power to supplement the solar cell when there isn’t enough sunlight. (Also add a battery to charge when the cell has more than enough power, and run off the battery before resorting to mains. For even more savings.) THAT would be the most efficient Linux PC. This one is just a pretender until the other one comes along.
(Nice machine, though.)
December 13th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
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