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Has anyone heard of Raspberry Pi, new lowcost mini PC (Due out Feb 2012)?

nlarson
nlarson over 14 years ago

I recently heard about this product from a colleague here at element14 and curious to hear if any of you have either?  If you haven't perhaps your kids have? image

 

A description from the company describes it as:

 

"The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and  a keyboard. 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. We want to see it being used by kids all over the  world to learn programming."

 

I'd be curious to hear your thoughts on the product as it sounds like a game changer in the computer world.

 

Here's their Twitter account and website if you'd like to check out more about it:

 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/search/raspberry%20pi

Website: http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs

 

Thanks for your thoughts and comments as always!

 

Nicole

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    Former Member over 14 years ago

    Clearly Farnell haven't heard about it. Since the release about 2 hours ago, the farnell UK website has been almost completely DDOSed under the load.

     

    Methinks the Farnell suits didn't really think that such a cheap bit of kit would be so exciting to the rest of the world.

     

    Although RS haven't done any better and failed to actually put the product on sale at launch time....

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    Former Member over 14 years ago

    Clearly Farnell haven't heard about it. Since the release about 2 hours ago, the farnell UK website has been almost completely DDOSed under the load.

     

    Methinks the Farnell suits didn't really think that such a cheap bit of kit would be so exciting to the rest of the world.

     

    Although RS haven't done any better and failed to actually put the product on sale at launch time....

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    bodgy over 14 years ago in reply to Former Member

    Well the Australian site was hard to get onto along with RS (including the UK site for them as well). RS haven't listed it on their Australian site as yet.

     

    Managed to safely order one though and awaiting the 38 day lead time, or so the order page says.

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    Former Member over 14 years ago in reply to bodgy

    A piece on the BBC web site today http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17190918

     

    RS Components web site has a temporary holding page due to traffic overload!

     

    Neither RS or Premier Farnell actually have it on sale at the moment!

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