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Details About Raspberry Pi Foundation's $25 PC

Posted by samzenpus on from the disposable-computing dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Cost of a textbook? by Tompko · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  2. Re:The new Arduino by slim · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

  3. Re:Cost of a textbook? by mwvdlee · · Score: 4, Informative

    Shouldn't that info be on the WEBSITE?

    It is.
    Don't you check your "facts" before posting them online?

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  4. Re:The new Arduino by jc79 · · Score: 4, Informative

    PS: "analogue"? Really? Colour me modernist, but that's a rather archaic spelling even for an Englishman.

    Not an archaic spelling. A correct spelling.