[GRLUG] another Raspberry Pi article

[Bob Kline]

Re $25 and $35, and earlier item here
said there are two versions - the differences
escape me just now.

Just playing devil's advocate, I'll ask
where's the beef?  By the time you hang
enough stuff on the board to do anything
with it there won't be any cost saving to
speak of.  One can get any number of
great motherboards for under $100 today.

Just asking.....

    -- Bob


On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 8:18 AM, Richard Nienhuis <richardnienhuis at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Actually the broadcom chip they are using can do 1080p encoding as well.
>  They just have not implemented that yet.  I expect people will come out
> with some sort of implementation shortly after the board ships.
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 8:11 AM, John-Thomas Richards <jtr at jrichards.org>wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:30:26PM -0500, Mike Williams wrote:
>> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/28/raspberry_pi/
>> >
>> > I want at least one of these critters.
>> >
>> > From the article, " Users can run Debian, Fedora and ArchLinux ARM
>> > GNU/Linux distributions on the Pi, although not Ubuntu at this
>>
>> I am amazed that it can decode 1080p video.  This thing is amazing.  I
>> want one to put next to the television with a large USB drive attached.
>>
>> I read somewhere that the $25 price tag (though this article says $35)
>> is for the board itself.  Even with a case this thing can't be more than
>> $40 or so.  Even for $50 that's a great price for what it can do.
>>
>> > time."   (So it does belong in this here mailing list)
>>
>> Why wouldn't it?
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