Nice spot though .. you're good at this aren't you ;)Only because I am still looking for that ideal board. Yeah, the SATA would go a looong way. (There seem to be interest as they have raised that question on their forum) https://www.miniand.com/forums/forums/8/topics/227 As for being a developer board is probably because it does not come with a case, hence it is not a consumer device.
After reading that … they suggest there may be an issue with SATA and the A10 allwinner … but the Mele forum they point to suggests it works for some, so it’s probably just a config problem, or support for the A10’s SATA implementation is just slower getting into the Linux kernel (as it seems to work in Andriod).
Interesting though 
Yeah, I was just reading that (the Mele forum), It does not sound too good at the moment.
Wait and see.
Sorry, I may have been editing the above post when you posted that.
It seems as though the A10’s SATA implementation works just fine in Android, but some people are having problems with it in Linux … so likely that they are either on older kernels, are not getting the config right, or just that some Linux kernels haven’t added support for the A10’s SATA implementation yet.
If it works in Android ICS, it’s likely to come to the Linux kernel … if it hasn’t already … some people on there seem to suggest they have it working in Linux ???
This is the kind of thing all the other boards without GPIO are going to miss out on:
That sounds interesting, though you have to self assemble it:
http://www.element14.com/community/groups/raspberry-pi
Hmm … I hadn’t noticed that.
Not strictly in keeping with the PC theme but interesting project nonetheless:
Rikomagic ARM Smartbook Project - Allwinner A10 Powered
System Allwinner A10 running at 1Ghz 1GB Ram Android 4.0 from internal 4/8GB NAND Ubuntu 12.04 from SD card 1024 x 600 DisplayInterface
Full size SD card slot
3 x Standard USB Ports
1 x Ethernet
Audio Input
Audio Output
Built in Microhone
Built in Stereo Speakers
1MP Camera
http://www.rikomagic.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=296#p1885
No idea about pricing just jet.
Yeh, I’ve seen a lot of android netbooks recently (though this is the first that quotes Ubuntu compatibility) … it’ll be nice to see how Ubuntu runs on this, though my guess is it will be a little heavy, particularly if they’re using Unity.
I really want to see what’s available in Ubuntu’s ARM port …
Judging by the video they are running the full body Ubuntu.
I would expect that the performance would be on par with the AA1
So if you could run it with LXDE then…
That was pretty much EXACTLY what I was thinking … LXDE … I was wondering if I could approximate Peppermint on one
I’m just wondering what’s available in the Ubuntu ARM repo’s …
[EDIT]
Maybe finding out is my project for tomorrow
Peppermuntu ARM
Maybe you could re-base it to Bodhi ARM repos:
Maybe … but they’re the Debian ARMHF (ARM with hardware floating point) repos and if the Debian/Ubuntu repos follow their mainline repos, they won’t be fully compatible … which is kinda my question, I KNOW LXDE is supported in the Debian ARM repos (Debian for the Pi comes with LXDE by default), but have no idea if LXDE is in the Ubuntu ARM repos, it probably is, but I don’t know for sure.
i just come across this on the softpedia website
Pretty, but not ARM though … it uses an AMD Fusion APU which is x86
i might try this
i think linuxmint have a “mintbox” just out that can run any distro but it might have been a fantasy 
Yup, they do … all covered here:
http://linuxforums.org.uk/index.php?topic=10198.0
but again … not ARM
dont know if you saw this little bit of news
Yeh, but then I wouldn’t be foolish enough to buy an ARM device with Win8 
… nor do I think there’s a real risk of Windows sewing up the ARM device market