£15 Computer ...

Indigo · 11 Jan 2012 at 15:44

Looks interesting, going to be looking at the others shown at CES before making a choice though. Be handy to have a computer you can fit in your pocket.

manic_man · 11 Jan 2012 at 15:53

Loving that Cotton Candy by FXi! The lady in the video states they expect it to be available by December for under $200.

Dual core 1.2Ghz Cortex-A9
1GB of RAM (upgradeable)
Up to 64GB storage via microSD
2.1 Bluetooth
b/g/n WiFi
Power via USB (and also connection to other devices, I assume this will be achieved via an external hub)
3.1 HDMI with audio

That's a seriously impressive piece of packaging right there!

gropingmantis · 11 Jan 2012 at 15:59

PermaBanned said:
Well i think there is a way to get XBMC to run on top of another distro, rather than on its own. Wouldn't be a world of effort away from getting that to run on ARM.

Already done.

Glaucus · 11 Jan 2012 at 16:06

manic_man said:
Loving that Cotton Candy by FXi! The lady in the video states they expect it to be available by December for under $200.
!

In the shops, pre release ones are meant to be on their website very soon.

RomanNose · 11 Jan 2012 at 16:48

By the way, the first batch is probably going to sell out in minutes, perhaps even seconds.
I am going to be running a webscript that will notify me when the website changes, it's going to be the only way of getting one. 10k are being produced with over 40k people on the newslist and many hundreds of thousands more who want one.
They are going to have to run some bullet proof server for when it launches.

gropingmantis · 11 Jan 2012 at 17:11

RomanNose said:
By the way, the first batch is probably going to sell out in minutes, perhaps even seconds.
I am going to be running a webscript that will notify me when the website changes, it's going to be the only way of getting one. 10k are being produced with over 40k people on the newslist and many hundreds of thousands more who want one.
They are going to have to run some bullet proof server for when it launches.

I thought the first run was 100,000?

RomanNose · 11 Jan 2012 at 17:14

Details about whether we’ll wait for all 10k to come off the line before starting sales,

Looks like 10k
http://www.raspberrypi.org/

gropingmantis · 11 Jan 2012 at 17:20

Oh damn, I had better keep a very very very very close eye on that then.

deadite66 · 11 Jan 2012 at 17:34

i'm going to wait and see what interesting projects spring up before considering buying one.
if it makes for a cheap media player then i could see it being a good Christmas present.

Chaos · 22 Jan 2012 at 19:29

RomanNose · 22 Jan 2012 at 19:41

Awesome.

The__Malteser · 22 Jan 2012 at 19:42

Anybody knows when the actual product is going to be on sale?

Glaucus · 22 Jan 2012 at 19:44

Unfortnetly can't run iTunes, Zune or Netflix.

Still hoping I can get my hands on FXI cotton candy when devloper models come out in the next ~month. Running android so can use Netflix app and should have no problem streaming other content as its dual core/1GB ram.

PermaBanned · 22 Jan 2012 at 19:45

Glaucus said:
Unfortnetly can't run iTunes or Zune.

No great loss there then

Glaucus · 22 Jan 2012 at 19:48

PermaBanned said:
No great loss there then

It is seeing as they are pretty much the only providers for Internet purchased media.

RomanNose · 22 Jan 2012 at 19:52

I would just buy and then pirate. Much easier and no flipping DRM.

Glaucus · 22 Jan 2012 at 19:53

RomanNose said:
I would just buy and then pirate. Much easier and no flipping DRM.

Tahts far to much effort for me. I'm firmly in digital age. Can't wait for drm to be scrapped though. Surly it will go the way of mp3s just a matter of time.

RomanNose · 22 Jan 2012 at 19:59

Glaucus said:
Tahts far to much effort for me. I'm firmly in digital age. Can't wait for drm to be scrapped though. Surly it will go the way of mp3s just a matter of time.

Maybe though, drm is stupid as it only hurts legit users. Also netflix etc don't always have the best quality. It's a shame that these companies can't just get rid of drm as they could be integrated with xbmc.

robgmun · 22 Jan 2012 at 22:52

Glaucus said:
Tahts far to much effort for me. I'm firmly in digital age.

It's actually less effort then anything else.

Glaucus · 22 Jan 2012 at 23:18

robgmun said:
It's actually less effort then anything else.

So going and buying a DVD, spending several hours ripping it. Is easier than clicking a link and pressing play?