[7] It uses the AllWinner A10 SoC, popular on cheap tablets, phones and media PCs.

[9] The Cubieboard team managed to run an Apache Hadoop computer cluster using the Lubuntu Linux distribution.

[12] This board is used by Fedora to test and develop the Allwinner SoC port of the distribution.

[14] The third version has a new and larger PCB layout and features the following hardware:[15] There is no LVDS support any longer.

The RTL8211E NIC allows transfer rates up to 630–638 Mbit/s (sending while 5–10% idle) and 850–860 Mbit/s (receiving while 0–2% idle) when simultaneous TCP connections are established (testing was done utilising iperf with three clients against Cubietruck running Lubuntu) To connect a 3.5" HDD the necessary 12 V power can be delivered by a 3.5 inch HDD addon package which can be used to power the Cubietruck itself as well.