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Check out this $35 PC!?!?!
Blanka:
A Pi too big to fit in a Spectrum? Hahaha, do you know how small it actually is? The size of a credit card. You can make a quad-core Pi server in a ZX spectrum.
ark_ader:
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--- Quote from: ark_ader on March 28, 2012, 05:58:13 am ---Since the Pi will be the death knell for low powered ITX boards.
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You really think so?
...I'm not so sure. I am excited about the PI but to me it will make a great media device, or Mame unit. but If I really wanted a small computer I would still rather have a ITX based unit with a full array of ports possibly even a slot for a real HD.
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Yes I do. The Raspi does not have any actual audio out (to cut costs), so it will be difficult being a media player without it looking like a USB porcupine, secondly drivers for audio devices will be fun. ;D HDMI does not provide any audio. :-[
All my ITX PCs are darn slow. Great for server applications but completely crap for the basic office applications, especially the Epia (which I am referring to not Intel Hybrids) so the Raspi will have gained some ground there considering it will be able to decode HD. Try that on an Epia board. :laugh2: Try to run XBMC on a Epia 5000 or 800. Heck the old Xbox1 does a better job.
Price point, wise and the ability to pretty much run out of the box headless, and that will be a boon to robot fanciers and the basic programming concepts curriculum, as you can remote in using a host PC, for which this device is geared towards.
Then we have to look at the Power supply issues. No more power brick PSU or dodgy DC to DC converters. Just 5V. And you can easily get that from the sun.
If college subsidized are we looking at a possible free computing scenario?
kahlid74:
Got my update that they've been shipped to Element14. Once Element14 gets them they'll be doing their own consistency checks and then once passed they'll send them my way. So probably another 1-2 months before it's physically in my hands.
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