The new $243 plus tax computer arrived today and I have to admit that it is great. I loaded Linux Mint, OpenCV, Boost, Qt Creator (only for the IDE), the Wt libraries, downloaded the bean sort code from Subversion and had it compiling in three hours or so and that includes building OpenCV, Boost, and the Wt libraries from source.
Tomorrow I hope to get the thing taking pictures via the USB 3.0 port so it will be ready to ship to Gene early next week. The biggest challenge is keeping Kiwi out of the way. Maybe that says something about how hot the thing runs.