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First Photos and Video of Raspberry Pi Model A

Posted by timothy on from the 25-bucks-(cheap!) dept.

coop0030 writes "The first photos and videos of the Model A production samples are now available. The Raspberry Pi Model A is the newest low-cost computer from the Raspberry Pi Foundation. Compared to the popular Model B, the Model A forgoes the Ethernet Controller, has 256MB of RAM, and has a single USB port. A benefit of the missing Ethernet controller is that power consumption is reduced. This allowed them to reach their goals of a low-cost $25 computer. The release date is for sometime early in 2013."

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  1. Re:256 is not enough by houghi · · Score: 4, Informative

    What about http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ ?

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  2. Re:Why? by White+Flame · · Score: 3, Informative

    There are a few others in the RPi space now. This board might be more up your alley: Cubieboard

  3. Re:256 is not enough by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Instead of using Linux which is unfit for the RPi, you'd be better off running RISC OS, which has a full web browser that I assume runs super-fast.

  4. Re:256 is not enough by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Low-cost computer, not general-purpose desktop-replacement.

    First statement on the FAQ:

    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.

  5. Re:Ummmmm... by M1FCJ · · Score: 4, Informative

    Lower power requirements. A lot of embedded device people don't care about the RAM and the ethernet. Who'd like to drag a network cable in their little robot?