[tsunagatta]

> With a weak Amlogic processor, 4GB of eMMC storage, and only 512MB of RAM, the device is too underpowered to run anything more demanding than its intended lightweight web-based media player.

I’m a little confused by this statement — those specs are not actually that bad by any means. Running a full linux OS plus a web-based music player is a pretty heavyweight task, all things considered. It sounds like an ideal hacking device to me.

[userbinator]

Saying "only" 512MB of RAM to run a "lightweight web-based media player" is an insult to an entire generation of people who used far less powerful computers to do far more productive things.

According to some other info I could find, the processor is an Amlogic S905D2, which is a quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 up to 1.896GHz.

[Am4TIfIsER0ppos]

The first generation, or maybe second, Raspberry Pis have that much ram, and only a single core.

[poikroequ]

IIRC I saw the Car Thing on sale for as cheap as $25? Actually decent specs for the price. There's so many little things you can do with this hardware. The people claiming it's ewaste just have no imagination.

[lylejantzi3rd]

> IIRC I saw the Car Thing on sale for as cheap as $25?

I'm seeing them on sale for the MSRP ($80) on the low end and $150-200 on the high end.

[pjmlp]

Basically way beyond the three PCs I had between 1995 and 2002, to run Windows and Linux distributions on.

[beachy]

Yeah, the knob and display make it a pretty cool device for so many things.