Raspberry Pi - $35 Linux computer

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Subliminal Aura said:
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
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Storage (USB/SD) will become a significant bottleneck too. People looking to use these as some sort of desktop replacement will be disappoint I believe. It will work, just don't expect a Windows like experience.

I'm still looking forward to the Rpi, but for my own amusement making small probably headless projects. Linux experience is a bonus
 
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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You are better waiting for one of the other ocs on a stick and xbmc port, of that's what you wnat from $50-200 with far more powerful CPUs.
 
I guess you could say it now BusError :)

I wonder if much (or anything) could be offloaded to the GPU for websurfing? I guess this would need some serious development effort to work. Maybe if enough are sold someone could look at this. Perhaps using a lower resolution would produce better results.
 
masterluke said:
interesting video of it booting XBMC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKhnoQMwjmQ&feature=youtu.be
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Awesome.

masterluke said:
I guess you could say it now BusError :)

I wonder if much (or anything) could be offloaded to the GPU for websurfing? I guess this would need some serious development effort to work. Maybe if enough are sold someone could look at this. Perhaps using a lower resolution would produce better results.
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Samsung's partially accelerated browser works well on ARM11 hardware and Amazon's Silk browser could be a good port too (cloud caching, some rendering etc)

When browsing the BBC website with my 1GHz ARM HTPC @ 720p it always hovers around the 500-600MHz mark whilst giving great performance.
I can't see this being much different with fully optimised software. ARM11 isn't that much slower (30-40% real world) than a cortex A8/scorpion.

...don't forget a 1GHz overclock if the SoCs 40nm too :D
 
Any news on when we can order?
Any videos of it playing Netflix?

Seems it can't, no license from adobe. So much for a gap stop till more powerfull ones are released.
 
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