Raspberry Pi?

[Joeman]

Anyone else thinking about buying one of these to mess about with??

What’s a Raspberry Pi?
The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It’s a capable little PC which can be used for many of the things your desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and games. It also plays high-definition video. We want to see it being used by kids all over the world to learn programming.

I'll be buying one to play around with, and at just $25 with profits going to charity, i reckon we all should!!

[wim121]

Yep, Ive been waiting ages for it to come out .......

[TheFaQQer]

I signed up a while ago for the updates.

You can bid on eBay for one of the first few - £2k each at the moment

[Scrag Meister]

What's the spec? CPU, RAM etc....

[NickFitz]

What's the spec? CPU, RAM etc....

ARM 11, 128 (Model A) or 256 (Model B) MB RAM. More specs here

[TheFaQQer]

What's the spec? CPU, RAM etc....

Model A has 128MiB RAM, Model B 256MiB
Both have a 700MHz ARM11 CPU
Model B has an ethernet port as well, A doesn't.


Detailed spec is here.

[petergriffin]

This project looks like Tony Blair circa 1997: attractive in principle, much labour, no delivery.

[d000hg]

Anyone else thinking about buying one of these to mess about with??



I'll be buying one to play around with, and at just $25 with profits going to charity, i reckon we all should!!

I really like the idea but have little desire to buy one... I already have a PC I can play around on to my heart's content.

[Joeman]

I really like the idea but have little desire to buy one... I already have a PC I can play around on to my heart's content.

LOL, i just put your comment into google translate and it said:

"oh, that looks too scary for me, i would never be able to work that, i'd better not buy one, i'll and stick to the comfort of my nicely boxed PC with pretty user interface"

[doodab]

I really like the idea but have little desire to buy one... I already have a PC I can play around on to my heart's content.

Yes I think that, it's a nice idea but if you already have access to a spare PC or virtual machine running linux it doesn't seem to offer anything over and above that unless you're looking for a standalone board to use in some sort of project. Still if it's only £20 I might as well buy one