Raspberry Pi £22.00 computer starts 29th at 6am
The Raspberry Pi is set to go on sale at 6am on Wednesday 29th February.
Limited to one per person for this initial run of 10,000. More units to be made later in the year.
This is a fully functional ARM-based computer with HDMI out, 256MB RAM memory, two USB ports, 10/100 Ethernet controller and SD card reader for £22.
This ultra cheap computer can be used as media player soon, running a special build of XBMC for playing your downloaded movies on usb at 1080p.
NOTE: XBMC for RasPi aka RaspMC has not yet been released but will be soon with the launch http://www.raspbmc.com/
You will need a SD card, micro usb adaptor for power, keyboard, mouse and TV. It doesn't come with a case, but it's pretty small so you could just stick it to the back of your TV.
"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 that 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." From http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs
All Comments (878)
Jump to unread Post a Commenta circuit board so effectively useless as it stands to the vast majority of hukders ;)
probably go uber hot though :)
Expect large numbers to be bought by people in here - just because they're cheap, and even though they'll never actually be used for anything.
What a total waste, when there are people out there who could actually make good use of them but won't be able to get one because of HUKD. :(
For those looking for a cheap arm box it will do a lot of things but the cpu is quite slow and the max is 256mb of memory is really low for real world applications .. they also have limited the power input to 1A (the device consumes 1/2A and a 2.5inch drive 1/2A) so this is a bit tight as well
I'll be getting one to play with .. but its not powerful enough yet to replace my hacked plug computer running my squeezebox/dlna/openvpn servers ...
I'm guessing there will be a few competitors coming on the scene as well if the pi sells out its first batch ... so it will be interesting to see if several of the "vapourware" competitors at the mmt comes on the scene with something real based on the far better cost per performance (than the pi's broadcom SOC) SOC's around at the moment.
£22 for a hand-sized system capable of being your web server (or various other roles which require minimal processing with high availability) using a miniscule amount of power.
Yeah, what a rip-off! :)
No PSU? It's powered by USB.
As far as I know It comes with preinstalled XBMC, so using it as mediacenter is an obvious choice.
There are tons of things you can do with this, but most likely I will be using it as a mediacenter setup for my parents.
...I suppose you could always nick one.
Ah - so the 'billions' got it right and Turing got it wrong?
It is a computer and a more advanced one than packaged by Apple, Radio Shack & Commordore that launched the desktop PC market ...
Coupled with industry standard USB keyboard & mouse plus an HDMI monitor and its a much more sophisticated package. The only thing it lacks is a case. And the people who made their millions out of the Nokia 3320 will soon have those on eBay for under a fiver.
This is real open computing. That sure beats Apple's offerings, and not only on price ;-)
Edited By: brainsys on Feb 28, 2012 17:10
Although anything that comes driving a Ferrari and having a moustache gets my vote!
if like me you like to sit down, press the "on" button and things just work, this wont be for you, please bear in mind this is for the technical minded folks or for those who want to tinker....
I still think a WDTV Streaming is a better bet even at 3 times the price, or a jailbroken ATV2 at 4 times the price, simply because they dont require brain cells.
but for all those wanting to play around with this, it is hot
It was always going to be $35 + tax. So thats about £27, plus shipping!