Raspberry Pi - $35 Linux computer

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SoundsGood said:
Couldn't wait.. ended up buying an Arduinio to tide me over.
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Isn't that a few quid more than the RPi? Although the Rpi is silly cheap anyway for what you're getting.

The Arduino looks like a good learning tool as well. If you look at the DIYDrones website they have used the Ardunio board to develop a fully autonomous GPS guided drone. Really cool!
 
Yay, pretty much seals the deal for me with these, shall be picking up one if i can at launch, then will seed around the various rooms in the house :D

Grandparents will be getting one too for stuff :D
 
I think A is simply more geared towards the education side of it, I imagine for the younger students/kids and then moving on to B for the older ones, although I agree, seems a little odd.
 
With everything based around Internet and cloud, it should be b, especially when these kids are in school. But then again it's main aim is to introduce programming, rather then full on programming at a later stage.
 
Subliminal Aura said:
doesn't do that on my low powered celeron
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This is way less powerful than a celeron. Personally I think it looks pretty useable as long as the menu system is navigable and the video's play smoothly. I read that the only thing not working is the transparent menu when you have a video playing in the background.

This was never going to be a system that could multi-task. You can expect to hit 100% cpu regularly with the current app. What i REALLY want to see is a web surfing demo.
 
Glaucus said:
Why even bother with A or is that to hit their price point.
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Model A is more an exercise in how cheap they could make something like this while maintaining *some* level of usability. Model B is a lot more use in the real world. The names of the models are a throwback to the days of the bbc micro which had models A and B.

They dont expect to sell large volumes of the model A (to begin with anyway).
 
masterluke said:
This is way less powerful than a celeron. Personally I think it looks pretty useable as long as the menu system is navigable and the video's play smoothly. I read that the only thing not working is the transparent menu when you have a video playing in the background.

This was never going to be a system that could multi-task. You can expect to hit 100% cpu regularly with the current app. What i REALLY want to see is a web surfing demo.
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+1

I've been working with ARM embedded linux systems for quite a while so really do know exactly how powerful this box is.

Hopefully it'll be enough but real applications could be as a remote cloud desktop - Think google distributed RDP
 
masterluke said:
Just found this..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UWwUEPh9EI

Not as fluid as I was hoping. I'm sure this can be optimised. Its probably the overhead of running with a full debian disto. I'd like to see something like chromeos running.
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Will make no difference running chromeos. The bottleneck is the CPU. Having said that - I'm now thinking that it may not have enough juice even to run as a terminal server client.

What happens with these machines is that CPU won't be able to handle the high number of interrupts during high speed network transfers
 
Heh you can't get a lot lower than using midori and LXDE ! Even if you accelerate it by a factor of 2, that'll still be about 1 second per refresh while scrolling -- on a window that is about 1/4 of the surface of the screen...

Can I start saying "I told you so" now and should I wait for a bit longer ? ;-)
 
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