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Details About Raspberry Pi Foundation's $25 PC
First time accepted submitter salcan writes "There is growing interest surrounding the Raspberry Pi Foundation and their promise of a PC that will cost just $25. We've seen how the OLPC has struggled to deliver a $100 laptop for developing countries, and yet Raspberry Pi is confident in delivering the $25 PC by November this year. Eben Upton, director of the foundation, recently gave a talk at Bletchley Park regarding Educating Programmers, which focused on the thinking behind the $25 PC."
It has a HDMI port
It also has an analogue TV out.
We don't even know how much RAM will it have
The $25 version will have 128Mb, and there's a $35 with 256Mb.
whether it will run Linux
It will run Linux, originally the hope was to run Ubuntu but with their restricted memory footprint they're having to go with a version of Debian instead. Amazing what you can learn when you watch the full video and actually listen to it.
at least for high power mains projects
"The device should run well off 4xAA cells"
Although I agree Arduino probably will use less power. Different design goals.
Shouldn't that info be on the WEBSITE?
It is.
Don't you check your "facts" before posting them online?
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as it's a UK thing (and the price I've always seen was 25 pounds, not 25 US dollars) the price in Poland should be the same+shipping
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PS: "analogue"? Really? Colour me modernist, but that's a rather archaic spelling even for an Englishman.
Not an archaic spelling. A correct spelling.
Kudos for saying a correct spelling instead of oft heard the correct spelling.
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