It sounds weird, but Nexus 7 could legitimately appear on this list:
1. small
2. $200
3. Android ICS
Although it only runs Android ICS, so does the Gooseberry, and they included that. Ubuntu etc distributions will undoubtedly follow. Though... to be fair, it doesn't seem in Google's interest to support linux, whereas the Gooseberry folks may do so.
Similarly, if they include announced-but-unshipped (like raspberry pi), the same reasoning applies to Ouya: small, $100, Android ICS.
Finally, ARM for linux might not be the way to go... I've been making comparisons between ARM and x86, and it's seeming that one core of the iPhone 4S is about equivalent to the 600MHz Celeron M in the original eee PC (701). Current Atom cores are about x5 as powerful (at typical clockrates); and currentish intel desktop CPUs (e.g. i5 2500) are about x10 per core (i.e. twice ATOM). [I make per-core comparisons because in practice, for most tasks, parallelization is hard.) Yet, there's a sense that ARM compute performance is approximately on par. I think this comes from dedicated video hardware: when you hear it can do 1080p video, you think it's comparable to an x86 CPU that can do 1080p video. Please amend/extend - I have an ongoing interest in this.
EDIT I assumed incorrectly that Raspberry Pi hasn't shipped (from this line: I’ve set up Gooseberry for one chief reason, the time the Raspberry Pi is taking to get here!)
If it had an HDMI port, it'd be great for hacking on, since you could build all kinds of media center type applications with it. You could make your own Ouya. Without any video output, it doesn't have the utility of a (small) computer. Most of the devices on that list have an HDMI port.
My HTC Evo phone, now 2+ years old, has a mini HDMI port. I don't understand why companies are now shipping tablets without one.
Whoah, there's tons of new ones since last I looked, including numerous Android 4.0 models, with seemingly pretty good hardware.
I'm almost at the point where I think I could use one of those as my primary computer...plug in a mouse and keyboard, a big 1080P monitor, and do everything online. The ssh clients for Android, so far, are insufficient, however...but, I guess I could use OpenSSH in a terminal if I were using a full keyboard. That'd be an interesting experiment.
If only I didn't need to occasionally do compute-intensive audio and graphic work...
For the compute-intensive work, why not just shell into a beefy box? We spent $3k on a 96M RAM 12core(+ht means 24 apparent cores) box that we run OpenStack on, with a big-ass SSD and 2 TB of spinny platters, and it's PHENOMENAL to use remotely :)
What's unshipped - the A model? I got my first B model over a month ago and the second a few weeks ago. My guess is that Raspberry Pi has shipped more units than half of the devices in that article.
Finally, ARM for linux might not be the way to go... I've been making comparisons between ARM and x86, and it's seeming that one core of the iPhone 4S is about equivalent to the 600MHz Celeron M in the original eee PC (701). Current Atom cores are about x5 as powerful (at typical clockrates); and currentish intel desktop CPUs (e.g. i5 2500) are about x10 per core (i.e. twice ATOM). [I make per-core comparisons because in practice, for most tasks, parallelization is hard.) Yet, there's a sense that ARM compute performance is approximately on par. I think this comes from dedicated video hardware: when you hear it can do 1080p video, you think it's comparable to an x86 CPU that can do 1080p video. Please amend/extend - I have an ongoing interest in this.
EDIT I assumed incorrectly that Raspberry Pi hasn't shipped (from this line: I’ve set up Gooseberry for one chief reason, the time the Raspberry Pi is taking to get here!)
EDIT Wow, shocking that Nexus 7 has no HDMI/video out - came across the similar-but-cheaper-with-HDMI Ainol Novo 7 Aurora II http://www.uplaytablet.com/compare-the-spec-of-google-nexus-...