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Raspberry Pi 3 Rolls Out With Faster CPU, On-Board Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth

An anonymous reader writes: The original Raspberry Pi went on sale four years ago, and more than 8,000,000 units have shipped since then. Raspberry Pi computers are used in schools and universities, in factories and other industrial applications, in home automation and hobby projects, and much more. Today the Raspberry Pi 3 was announced, featuring a 64-bit quad-core ARMv8 CPU clocked at 1.2GHz, making it roughly 10x the speed of the original Pi 1. Many people will be pleased to hear that the Raspberry Pi 3 also features on-board Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, greatly improving the device's connectivity. The new device goes on sale today at the usual price of US $35. (Here's the official announcement itself.)

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  1. Re:Awesome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Also, I still cant get my hands on a pi zero.

    Try Coke Zero. Available at any grocery store.

  2. Re:Awesome by Thanshin · · Score: 4, Funny

    Also, I still cant get my hands on a pi zero.

    Check your retailer. You can get a zero for every two PI.

    R.

  3. Re:Awesome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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  4. Re:Awesome by shortscruffydave · · Score: 5, Funny

    Check your retailer. You can get a zero for every two PI.

    YMMV - for two Pi I get 6.283185307179586476925286766559

  5. Re:Awesome by Richard+Dick+Head · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ugh...you meatspace engineers and your radians, butchering the beauty and purity of geometry. Clearly you've never enjoyed a spherical hamburger of uniform density in a vaccum.

  6. Re:So? by KingBozo · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hey when the whole family is watching the toaster from their phones to see who is first to get the eggo waffle, 10Mb/sec is just to slow. I could completely miss the eggo popping up and my kids get it first.

  7. Re:Awesome by fyngyrz · · Score: 4, Funny

    What's your angle, buddy?

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