"All of the first units to be produced are the $35 Raspberry Pi Model B. These are the more fully featured versions of the Raspberry Pi. The main difference from the Model A is that they include an Ethernet port, and 2 USB port" a fully funtional computer for 35 dollars!!! NO, this is not going to be a speed/power demon, but what do you want for 35 dollars. Just think of all the cool toys you could build with this, for VERY reasonable money!!! Now imagine if you could run andriod OS on this with output to a normal sized monitor. http://www.raspberrypi.org/
I mean, ok you could probably use it for... Ehh.. it's useless... For a power input it has a micro usb.. Yet the board itself has 2 usb's.. Lack of power someone? Edit: the specs:
...cheap media center; just connect an external storage to it. Or building a cheap Linux computer lab. You just lack imagination.
Can we not talk about this please. I'm still upset I got up at 5:45 am and of the two sites selling them, one was instantly dead and the other lied and didn't actually sell them.
Yea, maybe.. But for not much more money you can get used android phones, which have all that + a screen.. Only use I see (for me personaly), would be to get android on it, a 10" touchscreen lcd, and put it in my car instead of a radio.. But look at this: It's powered via an micro usb (5v and what.. 1A?) Now the device itself uses 700mA (3.5w), so we have 300mA (1,5w) left.. It has 2 usb ports, so 1 mouse + 1 keyboard.. And? You're out of power..
Really? A $35 used android phone with HDMI out, 1080P hardware decoding. Where can you buy them, nevermind the fact it has 2 USB, SD card and ethernet. Can your Android phone also stream full 1080P rips over a network and run XBMC (the best media playback software). Otherwise your whole post is pointless.
I'm not saying for 35, I'm saying for not much more.. And I'm not gonna argue about it anymore, just saying my thoughts about this.. 2-3 years ago maybe this would be something "revolutionary", now it's a waste of hardware imho.. I agree it's probably good for learning, experimenting with it, but not much more, cause it simply lacks computing power.. + I wanna see this thing handle a 1080p video..
There are videos of it running XBMC and playing 1080P films. I think this is great and will be getting 5 or so to stick with each TV to stream my media from my server in every room.
give some of these to a bunch of inventive hackers and you will witness magic. as for me i will order 2 ,just to experiment and try to ''mate '' it with an Arduino...
Grid computing via Ethernet. Problem solved. And guess what? The very people who are interested in this device aren't really interested in that 'much more' you're expecting out of it. YouTube searching via Internet. Problem solved.
Nevermind it's performance. Did Broadcom actually make working drivers for Linux? I'm sure the only people who bought this are those who know how to either enable non-oem drivers or compile their own but still. Broadcom...