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Generic Eric:
I have high hopes for this.  "Pi in the sky" hopes you could say.  It lowers the cost of entry for a mame machine considerably.  It will also help me afford a horizontal and vertical machine.

Howard_Casto:

--- Quote from: Generic Eric on March 13, 2012, 11:03:37 am ---I have high hopes for this.  "Pi in the sky" hopes you could say.  It lowers the cost of entry for a mame machine considerably.  It will also help me afford a horizontal and vertical machine.


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Really?  Because I can get a machine with those specs for around 50-70 bucks. Dealnews has a refurbished hp/dell p4 every couple months for around 75-80 bucks.  It's slightly cheaper at best.

Generic Eric:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on March 13, 2012, 07:28:37 pm ---
--- Quote from: Generic Eric on March 13, 2012, 11:03:37 am ---I have high hopes for this.  "Pi in the sky" hopes you could say.  It lowers the cost of entry for a mame machine considerably.  It will also help me afford a horizontal and vertical machine.


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Really?  Because I can get a machine with those specs for around 50-70 bucks. Dealnews has a refurbished hp/dell p4 every couple months for around 75-80 bucks.  It's slightly cheaper at best.

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Hmm...perhaps my comment wasn't complete.  It seems less of a hassle, less components to worry about anyway. 

Howard_Casto:
I'm still unsure of that as well. 


We don't have a build of linux on it yet, much less one specifically for mame that can be installed and setup easily. 

At least until it gets in people's hands and they live for it for a while I think we are trading one set of problems for another. 


It's smaller and uses less power... atm at least, those are it's only benefits.

kahlid74:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on March 13, 2012, 08:53:11 pm ---I'm still unsure of that as well. 


We don't have a build of linux on it yet, much less one specifically for mame that can be installed and setup easily. 

At least until it gets in people's hands and they live for it for a while I think we are trading one set of problems for another. 


It's smaller and uses less power... atm at least, those are it's only benefits.



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Not true.  Fedora has released their Linux distro for it - http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/805

Also, it uses the last generation of arm which is supported in just about every Linux distro except Ubuntu who decided they no longer wanted to support it.

Also, your 50-75 dollar computers use significantly more power and produces more heat/noise.  The key about the Raspberry Pi is form factor, power and heat.  This is an age old comparison you can't do because they aren't in the same category.  It's like comparing a Laptop to a desktop.  It's foolish because they have different use cases.

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