If we could just make numbers cheaper teaching kids maths would become easier too.
Tell HN: Don't waste your money on a Raspberry Pi
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Re: Tell HN: Don't waste your money on a Raspberry Pi
#12"So basically, it is a crappy, overly slow, wrong architecture, barebones media streaming computer."
Funny, that's exactly why I want to buy one. Have you priced set-top boxes lately? The cheapest Roku won't stream from another machine on your network and can't do 1080. Apple TV can't even to MKV for $100!
I'm really not sure why you posted this. On the surface, it sounds like you're jealous. Judging by your username "norasppi", I have to assume you're trying to protect your identity, which would lead me to think you're working on/for a more expensive competitor and are bitter that Raspberry Pi is seeing so much success. All smells really fishy to me.
At the very least, do you have a better alternative with comparable specs for the same price? Complaining without providing a solution is probably my least favorite thing ever.
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#13Incendiary Title - Check
Baseless Accusations - Check
Assumption of alternatives with none provided - Check
There is nothing of value or worth in this post. It is flamebait. Please don't feed the trolls.
Re: Tell HN: Don't waste your money on a Raspberry Pi
#14I recently found something similar, yet on one side powerful (bigger CPU, more RAM), on the other less accessible (only HDMI and USB interfeace). It's called CStick -> http://www.cstick.com/ yet it's cost is about 100$. If someone is interested...
Re: Tell HN: Don't waste your money on a Raspberry Pi
#15It's not an end-user device yet. A lot of people are jumping on this as a cheap media center PC and they'll be disappointed. But there are plenty of us that want to stick a battery pack on it and put it in a robot or something more fun.
Why disappointed? It runs XMBC and decodes 1080p. That's pretty much all I need from a media center PC.
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#16I agree that this thing is underpowered - a Beagleboard would be a better investment, since its at least beefy enough to support having its own development environment onboard. I run mine as a normal Linux workstation, no cross-compiling required, gcc+cscope+vim+gdb is onboard of course, and its been a productive environment for years ..
could you please expand on this? I find the idea interesting, how normal is it as a workstation? Can you run X with a windowmanager and a graphical browser at a decent speed?
I use my Beagleboard like a normal Linux workstation - yes, it runs X (has 3D acceleration also), the browser runs quite fine, and I have all the normal development tools onboard. The Beagleboard is quite a capable little computer, and for us old-timer Linux guys, is more than enough horsepower for a bit of compiling here and there. As someone who cut his teeth on Linux by compiling the kernel and X server on a 386 with 8Megs of RAM, I'm not in the least bit swayed by "its too slow to do anything serious!" comments .. in fact, its quite fast enough to do quite serious things, as long as you pick your tools wisely, and don't expect to run a massive bloaty IDE like Eclipse or something ..
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#17I plan on running one as a headless server at home, yknow, a bit of file storage and whatever I can manage to put on it, not just because of the low price but because it draws a lot less power than my current setup.
35€ for something I can tinker with and basically leave running all day is pretty good. Not to mention at that price I can easily replace it.
Re: Tell HN: Don't waste your money on a Raspberry Pi
#18a little more, or a lot more?
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#19Right, because ~$20 is a lot of money for an embeddable device. If you're looking at this as a desktop replacement/barebones media streamer, then your post might have SOME merit. But frankly, most of us have other plans for these little guys. You sound bitter for some reason.
Re: Tell HN: Don't waste your money on a Raspberry Pi
#20I think maybe you missed the point. Its not supposed to replace the P4 with an 80 gig SATA you found on ebay for $50. Its a computer that you can program with a ruby on rails stack for the price of an Arduino. Its the same size too.
It doesn't replace your laptop, it replaces your Arduino. Your hardware projects just got awesome spilled all over them.