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September 19th, 2012, 02:31 GMT · By

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World’s Smallest PC on a Stick Launched by Zero Devices

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The famous Raspberry Pi has made some serious waves this year, but it seems that a professional solution will always bring higher reliability, higher density and higher performance. Such a solution comes today from Zero Devices.

The company is launching today a new ARM micro computer that’s officially called Zero Devices Z2C.

Zero’s new unit is literally a PC-on-a-stick. The small dimensions of the device makes it looks exactly like an USB flash drive.

Powered by the obvious suspect, the Zero Devices Z2C thumb PC uses a Rockchip RK3066 ARM processor based on the famous Cortex-A9 architecture.

The interesting aspect is the fact that this is a dual core CPU that also uses a very fast 1 GB of DDR3 memory.

Connectivity is well endowed for a system of its size and thus the Zero Devices Z2C thumb PC features two micro USB ports, an HDMI connector and even a micro SD card slot.

On top of it all, Zero Devices also has a WirelessN adapter integrated and comes with Android 4.0 operating system while all is priced at just $72 (54.8 EUR).

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Comment #1 by: Nate on 19 Sep 2012, 04:46 UTC reply to this comment

Needs an ethernet port


Comment #2 by: Pedro on 19 Sep 2012, 19:33 UTC reply to this comment

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Comment #3 by: Rem on 14 Apr 2013, 14:50 UTC reply to this comment

can't compare this to a raspberry pi since this has no experiment connections to it...
pi has a large connector on it to connect to sensord readouts and lots more!
all this can do is run basic programs, it can never i.e. run the diy solar tracking system on your solar array since the connections just arn't there.
it also can't be used as mppt regulator, again since the connector is missing.
you can do all this with just 1 single raspberry pi.
so to compare, make something with decent io possibilities, don't come with an android media player without a display since any1 can do that.

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