The Raspberry Pi is a computer about the size of a business card, with 2x USB2 out, an SD card for storage, Ethernet, HDMI out, analog video out, and 3.5mm sound out.
Here is a video of it running Quake 3 with 1080p output, 4x anti-aliasing and maxed graphics.
The price is going to be $25 without ethernet, and $35 with, when it is released in November. For more info, visit their website.
So it’s finally coming out now? Last time I heard anything aobut it was either this spring or sometime last year.
Awesome, no OS though? also, what about ram? Last I heard and tried something this size was the VIA PICO Artigo ITX which fits in the palm of my hand, also comes in 5.25" casing so you can fit within another computer where a cd/dvd drive would go.
From their FAQ:
I think the $25 Rasperry Pi has 128 MBs of RAM, while the $35 one have 256 
Soo… Now I can play quake live in my closet?
LIFE’S PROBLEM SOLVED
I saw something about this and it looks really cool. Not sure I’d ever use it though, unless they manage to make it powerful enough to run new games.
I don’t see why you guys are complaining about it being slow. It’s not made for you guys, obviously. It’s made for people who aren’t able to afford a new, fancy computer and want to have one for home use, etc.
Actually it’s meant to be like a BBC MICRO, to educate people in learning how to code and get it running on a stable system for very little money. It has around 16GPIO pins as well, this is fantastic, as it’s cheaper than an arduino and can do so much more.
It can also decode h.264 video in hardware, making it perfect as a cheap blu ray player (pick up a cheap drive for £35) with internet access and fully programmable. This is an awesome piece of kit. I have several ideas for them, including a video streaming box to strap to my projector, and an internet alarm clock, with spotify and itunes! The GPIO pins will allow me to wire up a remote control as well.
That will never happen.
This is for a lot of things, not meant for new gaming though, personally I´d plug a few hard drives to it via usb hub and use it as a file server : )
Is the power supply going to be able to power all of that, though? I mean, obviously there’s not a full-fledged PSU on it, there may be a brick in the power cable, but it’s unlikely going to be able to pull a ton of power, for risk of it overheating.
Good point! that was also my first though, so had a quick look online, and found a few usb hubs with an external power source, so that should hopefully fix that issue : )
USB-compliant hubs, even powered ones, only output 100mw to a port unless it requests more though AFAIK-- which likely won’t be enough to boot up the raspberry pi. If you plug the hub into the pi instead of the other way around, though, you might be able to get it to work that way, although you’d need an additional power supply for the system itself (something like a cellphone charger should do).
Quite interesting bit of info there russilker, cheers.
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