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capabilities in comparison to other contemporary devices.
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560:"Is This The World’s Smallest Linux Laptop?"
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1020:"Bit banging VGA from an SD card slot"
738:. Vicerveza.homeunix.net. 2011-03-01.
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1199:Hands-on: Ben NanoNote Micronotebook
1164:Melanson, Donald ( March 15, 2010).
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897:. Projects.qi-hardware.com
736:"nanonixos: Documentation"
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594:Ben NanoNote - Qi-Hardware
1043:. Hardware.slashdot.org.
1022:. Hack a Day. 10 May 2011
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410:Technical specifications
688:. Pyneo.org. 2009-09-12
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174:slot, 2048 MB internal
1201:Linux Magazine Online
759:Halfacree, Gareth. ,
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106:, Sharism At Work Ltd
558:Humphrey, Benjamin.
268:open source hardware
247:device developed by
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1151:. Wiki-qi-hardware.
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