Is it me or does this email read like you have some financial interest in selling this pad?
Anyway, just to let you know, _all_ allwinner A10 tablets/tvsticks/settopboxes can run linux without much effort at all. Not really any point in a 'boxed linux' version of it..
7" tablets with allwinner a10 cost about 70 usd on ebay.
I have been playing with a cubieboard a lot this last week ( http://cubieboard.org/ ) and although its not a holy grail, its a really nice toy.
-- buZz