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Details About Raspberry Pi Foundation's $25 PC

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday September 1, 2011 @09:34PM 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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Re:Less than a "PC" by wolfie123 · 2011-09-01 21:48 · Score: 5, Insightful

So, when i unplug my peripherals from my computer case, it ceases to be a PC? Whoa. Radical, dude.

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Re:Cost of a textbook? by Tompko · 2011-09-01 21:56 · 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.