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Raspberry Pi Revision 2.0 Board Announced

Posted by timothy on from the like-gangbusters'-hotcakes dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Raspberry Pi finally saw a release on February 29 this year and is thought to have sold 200,000 units, with a million expected to ship before the year is over. That's a lot of tiny PCs, but it's also been an opportunity for owners to feedback any problems or tweaks they'd like made to the board. The Raspberry Pi Foundation has taken the feedback on board and today announced a revised design is being put into production. The new Raspberry Pi, known as revision 2.0 PCB, is expected to start shipping in the next few weeks. The revision includes a number of changes, but is essentially the same board. To summarize it includes a new reset circuit, a replacement for the reset fuses allowing for more reliable USB hub power, two GPIO pin changes for JTAG debug support, four redundant GPIO signals have been removed, and a new connector has been added for attaching a range of boards including a clock or audio codec. Two of the more easily noticeable changes include a fix that stops the HDMI connection interfering with certain operations of the Raspberry Pi, and the addition of two 2.5mm mounting holes to allow for easier mounting."

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  1. Re:It's not truly open... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    They got a sweetheart deal from Broadcom back when nobody else would talk to them because they all work there. That lets them sell the board for half of what a 'Bone costs. Now that RPi is world famous and selling hundreds of thousands of units they should find an open SoC.

  2. Re:And also it's now made in the UK by Forty+Two+Tenfold · · Score: -1, Troll

    by Sony

    Pity. I won't be getting one then.

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  3. Who cares? No really. Raspberry Pi is ALL HYPE. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yet another story about this useless board? What an unbelievable amount of ridiculous hype this useless little board gets.

    I mean come on, what can you even do with this board that you can't do with a Mac Mini? Once again we see how the freetards take a good idea invented by Apple (a small hackable computer) and twist it into something "for the kids" that actually goes against their best interests. NO kid is going to benefit from using or learning anything about Lin-sux, it is an outdated, obsolete technology that is only used by people and companies who cannot afford better software or don't want to buy better software from Apple or Microsoft because of political or competitive reasons.

    If you want kids to get the benefits of technology, give them a Mac and watch how they can use BETTER technology to achieve AMAZING results.

    Think different.
    Think BETTER.
    Think Apple!