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March 9, 2012

Raspberry Pi

Watch out Apple, there’s another fruit in the market. Yesterday, I was ogling Apple’s TV which sells for just $99. That has to be one of the most affordable hardware sold by Apple. Except for the iPod shuffle, which sells for a mere $49. Which brings me to my main topic today, the Raspberry Pi, a full-fledged computer being sold for just $35. Did I hear that right?

The Raspberry Pi is powered by an Arm-based processor. It’s about the size of a credit card. It comes with a HDMI port, 2 USB ports for connecting keyboard and mouse, an audio output, a composite output for old-style TVs and monitors, an Ethernet port for the network, and a SD card slot for loading the operating system. It runs on just 2 watts of power, and it boots in less than 15 seconds.

The best part of it all, it runs on Linux, an open-source operating system. Since it’s open-source, you can do practically anything to it. Currently, there are 3 Linux distro images available for the Raspberry Pi. They are: Debian squeeze, Arch Linux ARM, and Fedora 14 Remix. There are many potential uses for the Raspberry Pi, such as a media center, cafe internet workstations, robotics, to name a few.

Finally, here’s a video of the Raspberry Pi. Yea, I want one or two.

Filed Under: Apple, General, Linux Tagged With: apple tv, raspberry pi

Comments

  1. Greeshma says

    March 12, 2012 at 3:01 am

    Never am I gonna give up on apple for anything else.

  2. Ulysses says

    March 12, 2012 at 7:44 am

    I hear you, but $35 is a good deal. It’s worth checking.

  3. Flodner says

    March 19, 2012 at 7:13 am

    I tried to order it, but that was not available at both resellers. Also I tried to contact them but received no response.
    I hope to try Raspberry Pi in the nearest future

  4. Ulysses says

    March 19, 2012 at 10:31 am

    The Raspberry Pi is sold out. No word yet when they sell again. I also want to purchase one or more. Waiting.

  5. Flodner says

    March 19, 2012 at 1:12 pm

    That’s what I heard too. I just thought that may be you know some other options. I think many people are ready to pay more (actually with shipping it will cost more than $35) but not to wait such a long time

  6. Ulysses says

    March 20, 2012 at 10:26 am

    You can register and tell them you are interested. They will notify you when they have the product on hand. They probably didn’t anticipate the popularity of this product.

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