[Nursie]

Yes it's cheap.

It's not really novel though, there are a lot of other things out there that are interesting too. It's also not quite as open as it could be, for instance the bootloader on my sheevaplug from '09 was able to be hacked, flashed and updated to support more boot devices (just as an example). And some of us were doing this whole Debian/ARM box/USB enclosure/fileserver thing back in '05 with the linksys NSLU2, which wasn't much more expensive back then. Much less capable of course, but...

I guess it just rubs some folks up the wrong way. In reality it's awesome that so many people are getting an intro to linux this way, but it also feels like a bunch of teenagers who think their generation invented music :)