News - Raspberry Pi mini-PC launches this month for just £16

[dave87]

I wonder how quickly cases come to the market for these?

I can see it being a perfect XBMC type device

[watercooled]

Have been following this for some time and also getting a B model.

They've been trying to get them manufactured in the UK, and may do so with later batches (IIRC they want at least the A model made here for now), but they highlight an interesting point; to get the boards fully assembled in China and imported attracts no import tax, but importing the components would. They're hoping the gov't/customs to do a sanity check on it as it's just another thing discouraging domestic manufacturing of electronics. Have a read and add your name if you can.

http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/509
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/27158

[mikerr]

Where's this going to be sold, initially just on their website ?

[watercooled]

Yeah I think so.

[Noxvayl]

I'll buy a B version just because I want to support the Foundation. I might find a use for it at some point or I'll just give it to a nephew to play with.

[GeorgeStorm]

I'm very tempted to buy a B model to shove XBMC on it for streaming

Edit:

Just realised this could be perfect for the family at home, since I was looking at making a simple computer with XBMC so they would start using the projector more, since there would be no setup, just turn on and pick what they want to watch.
Looking forward to them becoming available

[edvinasm]

Am broke, no PC but need one. Here's the answer. Thank you electronics maniacs and Linux community! Oh and, probably inspired somewhat off Arduino success

[watercooled]

Reminds me a lot of the Beagleboard, just a heck of a lot cheaper. Would be kicking myself if I'd picked one up a few months back!

[mark22]

It is awesome...much quicker, and has the same amount of RAM as my first ever proper PC which cost me £1500 13 years ago...

Same here, Dell Dimension XPS T600, was a beast when I went to uni in 99.

[b0redom]

I _really_ wish this had some form of slightly faster storage onboard. I'd love something like this as a firewall/proxy/bastion server. I'm not sure it would cope with a basic Linux kernel and iSCSI in 256MB of RAM.

[Flibb]

Same here, Dell Dimension XPS T600, was a beast when I went to uni in 99.

My first year of uni I used a commodore C64, 2nd year was an Amiga A500, my dissertation was done on a cyrix 5x86 100. Think my watch has more processing power than that lot combined.

O and add me to the getting a Raspberry Pi, probably for xbmc

[watercooled]

I'm hoping they make a decent sized first batch!

[mark22]

My first year of uni I used a commodore C64, 2nd year was an Amiga A500, my dissertation was done on a cyrix 5x86 100. Think my watch has more processing power than that lot combined.

O and add me to the getting a Raspberry Pi, probably for xbmc

Dad?

[Unique]

an extra 129mb of ram for an extra 37.5% of the price? these fruit name computer companies are having a laugh!

[alsenior]

an extra 129mb of ram for an extra 37.5% of the price? these fruit name computer companies are having a laugh!

and Ethernet

[Big Adam]

Dad?

Nicole?