Any thoughts on expanding the *berry-Pi range yet? ;D

well, for desktop computing, a modern cpu and more memory would be hugely attractive.

It might even attract the interest of the Ubuntu and Android folks, and certainly would simplify

gcc toolchain issues.  I would be very surprised if it isn't already being investigated, since

Broadcom has more modern ARM cpu's available.

A quick and simple improvement would be for the foundation (or one of the licencees) to offer versions with more RAM. While I understand the education target market is price sensitive I think it has become clear that the Raspberry Pi has broader interest and the limited memory is going to be a killer for some applications.

I just want to get my hands one of the 'standard' raspberries, let alone think about an expanded version !

I think this has proved there would be pretty big interest, but i'm not sure how much could be included and still keep the price very low. There are obviously things like the Beagleboard out there already, which haven't caused anywhere near the level of interest that this has, is the only difference the price ?

These be interesting times !

As I would really like to see an board with more power , i really think it is not going be made by the foundation.

My arguments are :

• The aim of the foundation is education. They propably will keep one version of Raspi "alive" for a longer time (school budgets).
• The aim of the foundation is education. They are not bound to do multimedia updates or , in my eyes, even to produce or design any kind of hardware again. (Aiding CAS instead , publishing magazines, educational material  etc.)
• The cost. Have look  at the BeagleBone. There is some price fall possible , but A8 processors seem to play in another league there. Especially because the Raspi foundation had a bonus to get those low quantities – they are a charity.
• The cost. We all know that the Raspi  does not "cost" $ 35. Thats excluding taxes , shipping , the time you're going to invest , peripherials and storage. 
• The investment. The Raspi has been designed without being paid for. You do not want to know the number of unpaid man-hours involved. My list : PR (Social media , blog posts , twitter) , organizing infrastructure (make people donate servers for page , for file hosting) , getting a trademark , moderating forums , getting the datasheets released , getting the SoC in those quantities , testing , getting distributors , answering mails and press requests, running the webshop , answering comments , testing , talking with Linux distributions, colloborating with CAS and EduGeek , designing the boards , make someone produce the boards, etc. , etc.

So if you want a better Raspi , wait for a company. They will propably provide

• a guarantee and/or money-back-sheme
• customer service
• a power supply , storage and other cables
• a fluent combination of Hardware and Software with some special kind of compability 
• a easy-to-use device for the mass market
• or a device as a better alternative to the Raspi

Because they might be motivated by the idea of making profit being the one with the competitive price.

So did you see the new Roku ? It only costs $50.  And its an device that only fulfils one purpose.

Or wait for the next BeagleBone , CuBox ,  Cotton Candy or whatever.

Prices range from 89 – 189 $.

You might have a look at Rhombus-Techs project. They still create the impression of providing an Raspi alternative at a $15 (blatantly written on the front page) soon. Some kind of misinformation and wishful misinterpretation I bet I will never come to know of a real company.

Ghans

PS: This company could be anybody. I think we already have 3 candidates ....