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Just learned about these today. The nice thing about the Is that they have crypto instructions on the chip and outperform the Raspberry Pi 40 to 1 when using OpenSSL (at least according to benchmarks). With the price point cheaper than the RPi (comes with a case, flash, etc.) these may have just won me over.

See http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=38411&p=39...

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Looks like there's a (power gated!) hardware random number generator, too. It uses ring oscillators, so it's not going to pump out hundreds of megabytes per second like RdRand, but it's enough to at least throw a few kilobits of randomish data into Linux's random device at boot time before turning off to save power.

DX also sells loads of 'stick' form factor Android devices for around the same price, including shipping. MK802, MK808 run Ubuntu as well.

http://dx.com/s/android%2bmini?Sort=PriceL2H&category=191

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