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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You are joking, right?
A deal this cheap offered to the entire world will probably be sold out within the first 10 minutes. These things are like gold-dust!
Model B is much more sensible, it has two USB slots and Ethernet.
I'm leaving it six months to see what people manage to do with them first.
Er it's not American. Clearly you haven't even read the website.
Let the Devs and Script Kiddies have a chance at these first as they will be the ones whom the Pi is actually made for. To learn programming on Hardware Architecture for ultimately your benefit.
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.
Read what I said again, and try to compute.
In the mean time, I'm quite happy with the PIC32 PInginuo I have.
You are joking, right?
A deal this cheap offered to the entire world will probably be sold out within the first 10 minutes. These things are like gold-dust!
Not really.
It's useless without Dev Support. Though good if you know what you're doing.
Are their webservers made from this device?
Chances are if you are not aware of the Raspberry Pi project then it is either too technical or clever or complex or advanced or grown-up for you.
If not sure then Google will confirm.
I'll be in line for one, really hope the schools take this up, we need educators to stop teaching Powerpoint and start teaching computer science again.
Hmm, most of the people I've seen signing up for this, were from the golden age of home computing. Without that golden age, we probably wouldn't be on here.
This is for people who long for those days of hacking around with/building their own 8-bit computers (including Apples) and the scenes that kicked off. Not todays computer buyer who uses the Apple logo like a designer clothing label.
This is capable of doing the things people are forking out several hundred pounds for .i/e classic game emulation, Home Theatre, science apps. It's main purpose is to go into schools and bring out the talent that no longer has opportunities.
eventually you will be able to buy kits or even fully assembled devices, that turn this into a proper computer that sticks to the back of your HDMI monitor.
In the meantime be pateint for the scene to kick off. Hopefully this will become what Amiga should have, but with the main difference being dirt cheap computing today.
Wrong on both counts Phil
Edited By: maxeyt on Feb 28, 2012 17:47
You are joking, right?
A deal this cheap offered to the entire world will probably be sold out within the first 10 minutes. These things are like gold-dust!
Not really.
It's useless without Dev Support. Though good if you know what you're doing.
You realise XBMC at 1080P is already working well on this right?
Tell us how long you think it. and other useful apps will be available for download?
You are joking, right?
A deal this cheap offered to the entire world will probably be sold out within the first 10 minutes. These things are like gold-dust!
Not really.
It's useless without Dev Support. Though good if you know what you're doing.
You realise XBMC at 1080P is already working well on this right?
Tell us how long you think it. and other useful apps will be available for download?
My comment was in response to the Raspberry Pi being like 'Gold dust' and that everyone in the whole world will want this.
Fact of the matter is that the majority don't have a clue what this is for, which is a developmental board for Devs and the like.
The main focus is not your average consumer who wants a cheap little media player.
Who do you think codes these things? Devs, and the way people are talking there won't be any left for those who will make this device truly worthwhile.
Edited By: Shadow-360 on Feb 28, 2012 17:51
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Utterly stupid. The OP posts a fair description that they havn't even read. If they were trolling, they would have at least addressed the description in some way.
Slick Deals i'm looking at you :|
Tell us how long you think it. and other useful apps will be available for download?
Please folks - if you haven't read my post on page 3 of this thread ... it's not an x86 PC. It's not going to run your windows games (Quake3 was ported to ARM), you can't stick a PC video card into it, XBMC has been shown working but there isn't an AVAILABLE distribution for it yet AFAIK, the video codec support is limited to H.264, and the original description on here says it has built-in wifi, which it doesn't. Also the price is the STANDARD price which you'll be able to buy from later as well, this is not a limited deal other than the first batch being 10K units. And it's JUST a circuit board with no power cable/case etc.
Don't order from the first batch unless you have a clue what you're getting yourself into. You're not going to suddenly get an amazing media centre by the weekend if you order this. Let the developers take them, and be able to use them.
Edited By: sxa on Feb 28, 2012 17:57
I'm also going to going to hunt OP down and strangle his hamster/gerbil whatever it is.