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For $50, you could instead get the Zipit Z2.

http://www.zipitwireless.com/default.aspx?skinid=1

It includes wireless b/g, has more internal flash, and installing Linux is well supported by the company:

http://linux.zipitwireless.com/

Seems to have a reasonably active community around it.

I think the reason, for what it is worth, was more to have a totally open system, where everything down to schematics is available for you to see / use / fiddle with, than to have the cheapest small computer on earth.

Your link says it has 8MB of memory, while the NanoNote has 2GB. The MB may be a typo, but I found the same spec on a review site. Whether they got it from the same page you linked, I can't tell you.

32MB DRAM and 8MB flash.

Ah, you're right -- I meant storage space.

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