I got one of the first Olimex lime boards (Allwinner A10 Cortex-A8 CPU, 1GHz with Mali 400 GPU, 512 MB RAM, SATA, HDMI, 2x USB host, 100 MBit Ethernet). It comes with a nice case. Don't forget to order a 40-pin 0.05" step cable to access the GPIO / LCD connector banks. Unfortunately, the UART / serial pins are not led out of the case. As always, a 5V DC power supply and FTDI TTL-232R3v3 cable come in handy.

The /proc/cpuinfo is not that spectacular:

Processor       : ARMv7 Processor rev 2 (v7l)
BogoMIPS        : 405.52
Features        : swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls 
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant     : 0x3
CPU part        : 0xc08
CPU revision    : 2

Hardware        : sun4i
Revision        : 0000
Serial          : 0000000000000000

Some benchmark results are available here.

Guide to compile kernel and u-boot is here.
Information on linux-sunxi.

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