Raspberry Pi $25 PC goes into alpha production

Re:Raspberry Pi $25 PC goes into alpha production by ovi256 on Friday July 29, 2011 @12:11PM (#2822523)

That's on the very low end for consoles, all current generation consoles do much better than this. It sure beats an N64, but it won't run Halo.

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Re:Raspberry Pi $25 PC goes into alpha production by watmough on Saturday July 30, 2011 @12:08AM (#2824836)

Gosh times have sure changed.

At 700MHz, this thing is clocked at nearly 100x the ARM3 I started out my career on. And it has a vector floating point.

It would be awesome building a really stripped down kernel on this with a basic graphics kit.

I hop they get the numbers right, because they are going to get a lot of orders.

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Re:Raspberry Pi $25 PC goes into alpha production by wccrawford on Friday July 29, 2011 @12:49PM (#2822690)

My point wasn't that this device would defeat them, but that it's possible to make computers that are this ridiculously cheap. Add a little more horsepower you've got a serious competitor... And it should still be pretty cheap.

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Re:Raspberry Pi $25 PC goes into alpha production by sitkack on Friday July 29, 2011 @09:57PM (#2824604)

It is on par with a WII.

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Re:Raspberry Pi $25 PC goes into alpha production by sorbus on Saturday July 30, 2011 @12:37AM (#2824893)

Aside from the lack of a dedicated GPU, anyways (the Wii's CPU is apparently just over 700MHz).

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