Raspberry Pi: A £15 mini-computer

A £15 computer only as big a usb stick will become available in about 12 months. It has two ends, plug one into a tv usb port then plug a keyboard into the computer stick.

I am amazed how increasingly small and compact technology gets, and I can't wait to try one of these things out.

It isn't that long ago that computers were huge and whirred and clunked and slow motion tasks.

Games developer David Braben and some colleagues came up with the Raspberry Pi - a whole computer on a tiny circuit board made with not much more than an ARM processor, a USB port, and an HDMI connection

www.bbc.co.uk...

sorry guys, fixed the link

Is David Braben still fighting Ian Bell over Elite?

Sounds interesting!
I couldn't get the link to work.

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www.bbc.co.uk...
Hope this works

Looks promising,uses the ARMII 700mhz processor.
Bet the 2nd/3rd gen will be faster than my desktop!

(this one alsmost is sadly!)

Heres a pic I found.
Hmm hope they got good heatsink ability.



specs:

Provisional specification:
700MHz ARM11
128MB of SDRAM
OpenGL ES 2.0
1080p30 H.264
high-profile decode Composite and HDMI video output
USB 2.0 SD/MMC/SDIO memory card slot
General-purpose I/O Open software (Ubuntu, Iceweasel, KOffice, Python)

www.boingboing.net... ing%29

Next one should be USB3 and have more RAM I think.
Not to say this isn't damned cool being so tiny.