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
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Jump to unread Post a CommentAh - 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 ;-)
Yeah, okay.
Some of them look fantastic.
To call it a "computer" is stretching the definition of the word as used by billions.
Then billions of people are wrong.
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.
There is no 'preinstalled', it has a card slot. If you download a raspi distro of XBMC and put it on an SD card, then put that into the raspi, then you have a media center. Well, won't have a remote or anything, but you gte the idea.
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 ;-)
Yeah, okay.
Glad you see the error of your ways, if this is not a computer then I have no idea what is.
I have been following this for months, to finally see it through to distribution is great. We'll be trying to get a test board from the initial batch, then if all goes well hope to start teaching with them for next years intake. People need to see that you can make your own devices, they don't have to come in a shiny off-white case.
It was always going to be $35 + tax. So thats about £27, plus shipping!
That and that, £22 is wrong for this deal - probably need to add £10 for VAT and p&p.
Also, not sure why everyone is bothered about it being mentioned on here. 99% of people will have no use for something as minimal as this, nor any idea of how best to utilise it.
But some will buy it anyway because it is cheap, hence taking it away from those who can do something useful with it.
What a stupid comment. Get back under your stone.
Harsh....:D
I think it comes with onboard graphics :)
"The Raspberry Pi Foundation will be making a big (and very positive) announcement that just might interest you at 0600h GMT on Wednesday 29 February 2012."
Are you sure they're not just going to announce the release date at that moment? :P
I'm after Model B for sure. Need LAN for the things i'd like to test/use it for.
Also, not sure why everyone is bothered about it being mentioned on here. 99% of people will have no use for something as minimal as this, nor any idea of how best to utilise it.
Because people will buy anything on here as long as it's cheap. I'm still trying to figure out what I would have done with those 5 shower-screens I ordered from Very.co.uk.
Use them to make Raspberry Pi cases of course! Simples :)
Sounds exciting to me.
If I read it correctly this is proper innovation, back to the garage Microsoft sprung from?
This should be hotter, unless I have missed the point.
Hopefully after a month or so people will have worked out the full potential of it.
Plus some awesome cases may have appeared, I'd quite like to take apart a toaster and put it in there (seen as it will be in my kitchen)
To call it a "computer" is stretching the definition of the word as used by billions.
Bit like saying a moped is stretching the definition of being a vehicle. Its just not. This IS a computer as per the very definition of the word 'computer'. If you care to look it up.
Computer is a broad term and your mind seems to be a narrow place. Just because it hasn't got a glowing apple logo or a quad core Intel CPU sticker doesn't not mean it isn't a computer.