Tuesday, June 12th 2012

VIA's $49 APC Listed for Pre-Order, Sells Out

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VIA listed the US $49 Android mini-PC (APC) system board for pre-order. The product sold out in a few hours following staggering demand. VIA announced that all pre-orders will be shipped starting early-July, and the company is working hard to make the product available through local distributors around the world, to eliminate shipping costs to the end-users. Announced the APC back in May, the APC is a neo-ITX system board that can fit into most ITX and ATX chassis, and can be powered both by external 2-pin DC input, and internal 4-pin ATX input. The board seats an ARM-based SoC, which drives Google's Android 2.3 operating system, modified for conventional PC interfaces.

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37 Comments on VIA's $49 APC Listed for Pre-Order, Sells Out

#26
Baum
no android 4.0 with 512mb it might run slow? :wtf:
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#28
_Zod_
I hope a more powerful version springs up from this for 2x the price. Wouldn't mind one of these with a dual core arm, more ram and built in Wi-Fi, oh and the latest Android would be nice. Also I'd rather see headers for ports instead of the connectors, but I understand why it is how it is.
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#29
Sir B. Fannybottom
Has anyone made an little case for it to mount on the back of your TV?
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#30
Frick
Fishfaced Nincompoop
KevinheraizHas anyone made an little case for it to mount on the back of your TV?
It's compatible with the other ATX standards so it should work with any of these. Or the EM-154B, which is even smaller (hereis a build with it being mounted on the back of a monitor, it's in swedish though but the pictures are there).
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#32
Bjorn_Of_Iceland
cant wait for tegra 3 versions of stuff like these to come out.
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#33
1freedude
At this point the hardware is moot. Anyone that knows a thing about android knows its all about the ROM. If the rom sucks, the best hardware doesn't mean shit.

I'm gonna stick with my tab that has a dock that has HDMI, Ethernet, USB, and power. Not to mention wifi on the tab itself.
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#34
jigar2speed
Chevalr1cThen don't start them all in the background. :) Or are you like those people who are filling half their screen with systray applications and toolbars etc. and then complain their system is slow? ;)
Not really, i hardly install rubbish in my phone, but Gingerbread has this habit of starting the service in background which i don't need.
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#35
Mussels
Freshwater Moderator
jigar2speedNot really, i hardly install rubbish in my phone, but Gingerbread has this habit of starting the service in background which i don't need.
cough cough ICS
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#36
Jstn7477
My 7" "chinatab" with an Allwinner A10 (Cortex A8) 1GHz and 512MB (384MB available, 128MB GPU) and ICS 4.0.3 idles at 148MB RAM used. 512MB is sufficient for such a cheap device.
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#37
DannibusX
I love these small computers that are coming out.

This and Raspberry Pi is an excellent start to what I hope is a large trend.
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