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The low-cost and low-powered CherryPal PC that was expected to begin shipping this month has been officially delayed. Overall its not a good sign of things to come from the CherryPal PC, the delay is reported to be for at least two weeks, but it may be longer, and as of now there has not been another release date announced.

The cause of the delay comes from a last minute decision to upgrade the SSD to a better quality drive, and it seems that the drive is no longer playing nicely with the software. While its nice to see that they are making improvements even at the last minute, I cannot help but be a little skeptical, especially considering that the CherryPal was supposed to be complete and ready to go back in July.

Another not so good sign, according to company reps, anyone who had placed a pre-order will be offered a refund should they decide not to wait. You know, just in case we never see the CherryPal come to market.

Via [TG Daily]

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With more and more applications being developed that will allow us to work in the “cloud” and leave our desktop storage behind, its strange that we are not seeing more PC’s designed with cloud computing in mind.

A newly formed company, CherryPal, has just announced their first offering, appropriately named the CherryPal PC and is trying to take advantage of the buzz. The first thing that comes to mind, is that while they have not announced any pricing, I can only hope this is as low-priced as it is low-powered.

The CherryPal PC will feature a 400MHz Freescale mobileGT MPC5121e processor, 256MB or RAM and 4GB of flash-based storage. As for ports and connectivity, the CherryPal will have Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, an Ethernet port, two USB ports, a 3.5mm audio jack and a VGA output.

The little computer, which is just 1.3 x 5.8 x 4.2-inches and weighs in at 10.5-ounces will be running a version of Debian Linux. The CherryPal PC is expected to be available in early August.
 
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