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rasberry Pi (ARM chip computer)
cast-fish:
sbc?
i just didn't hink anywhere else does it. Making the stacked ram
and the form factor design.
ofcourse, the price is so enticing isn't it. In my local town it just
gets you a round of drinks....barely.
Can you imagine kids doing google on these?...google maps
...... imagine what they will learn about the world in a year...
:--)
V.
curaga:
Looks to get competition already:
http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/open-sauce/52054-british-company-looks-to-create-cheap-open-platforms
Another british company says they can provide 3x the cpu for 15$. If nothing else, gotta say the Chinese designs are improving at a huge rate.
vinceASPECT:
Ye...thanks for the heads up
but
a few paragraphs of text and wannabee's is a million miles away
from Rasberry Pi...
The RPi which has a container of 10 thousand units winging
over the ocean from Taiwan right now....the Linux OS is ready and released on the website
plus a whole bunch of other goodies regarding media tools and usage of the Pi.
I think the Rasberry Pi goes on sale in about 10 days. End of January 2012.
however, it's nice to see competition...
there are already several products up there...but they can't meet the price
match of the RPi....also the RPi has a great great community and there is so
much going on with it right now....(i think it will sell out instantly...and they
hope to shift 30K per year)
i don't believe the NON profit thing with RPi for a single minute
They auctioned the first 10 RPi boards on ebay for people to collect....the total normal
selling cost would have been 380 dollars......they sold for 25 thousand dollars to people....just.....prooving the level of interest in the RPi...
You will be able to get a RPi for 35 dollars real soon....if your very very quik.
Vince.
curaga:
Can't say this wasn't expected, but the Pi will have binary blobs for the gpu and video decoder:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA1MTc
bmarkus:
Funny. It is not allowed to sell to chineese customers due to EU export restrictions. At least it is what I heard :)
Never mind, you can by stickers in the mean time waiting for product.
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