Raspberry Pi reveals the final PCB design for the $25 PC
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Re: Raspberry Pi reveals the final PCB design for the $25 PC
#2Cool. Portable. Cheap. Can run Quake II.
But what does that get you? Still need to plug into a monitor, keyboard, mouse. So you can only use it where those things are.
For real portability, how about an SD system thumb drive I can plug into any computer, and it boots as my computer. That would be portable. Useful for a student lab, at my Mom's house, in a hotel.
Just a thought.
Re: Raspberry Pi reveals the final PCB design for the $25 PC
#3Cool. Portable. Cheap. Can run Quake II. But what does that get you? Still need to plug into a monitor, keyboard, mouse. So you can only use it where those things are. For real portability, how about an SD system thumb drive I can plug into any computer, and it boots as my computer. That would be portable. Useful for a student lab, at my Mom's house, in a hotel. Just a thought.
I want to use them as cheap embedded systems that without KVM.
Re: Raspberry Pi reveals the final PCB design for the $25 PC
#4Link to actual blog post: http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/344
Re: Raspberry Pi reveals the final PCB design for the $25 PC
#5Cool. Portable. Cheap. Can run Quake II. But what does that get you? Still need to plug into a monitor, keyboard, mouse. So you can only use it where those things are. For real portability, how about an SD system thumb drive I can plug into any computer, and it boots as my computer. That would be portable. Useful for a student lab, at my Mom's house, in a hotel. Just a thought.
I want to use them as cheap embedded systems that without KVM.
Right, that's the primary use in my mind. Not gonna be much use to a primary school student.
Re: Raspberry Pi reveals the final PCB design for the $25 PC
#6If they think this PCB is "packed" they haven't looked hard enough at a smartphone teardown. Go look at the iPhone 4S teardown:
Re: Raspberry Pi reveals the final PCB design for the $25 PC
#7Cool. Portable. Cheap. Can run Quake II. But what does that get you? Still need to plug into a monitor, keyboard, mouse. So you can only use it where those things are. For real portability, how about an SD system thumb drive I can plug into any computer, and it boots as my computer. That would be portable. Useful for a student lab, at my Mom's house, in a hotel. Just a thought.
Well, I think the idea is that you will plug it into a TV that you probably already have in the house. Thus both the HDMI port and composite TV-out. Keyboard and mouse still will be required though.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
I want to use them as cheap embedded systems that without KVM.
Right, that's the primary use in my mind. Not gonna be much use to a primary school student.
It will be all in the software. Make this thing boot into a python IDE with pygame installed and you have this generation's QBASIC.
Re: Raspberry Pi reveals the final PCB design for the $25 PC
#9Cool. Portable. Cheap. Can run Quake II. But what does that get you? Still need to plug into a monitor, keyboard, mouse. So you can only use it where those things are. For real portability, how about an SD system thumb drive I can plug into any computer, and it boots as my computer. That would be portable. Useful for a student lab, at my Mom's house, in a hotel. Just a thought.
Well, I think the idea is that you will plug it into a TV that you probably already have in the house. Thus both the HDMI port and composite TV-out. Keyboard and mouse still will be required though.
Rather like some of the early, low-cost home computers which came out of Cambridge in the 1980s; see ZX Spectrum. It almost feels like history coming back on itself.
Re: Raspberry Pi reveals the final PCB design for the $25 PC
#10Cool. Portable. Cheap. Can run Quake II. But what does that get you? Still need to plug into a monitor, keyboard, mouse. So you can only use it where those things are. For real portability, how about an SD system thumb drive I can plug into any computer, and it boots as my computer. That would be portable. Useful for a student lab, at my Mom's house, in a hotel. Just a thought.
It can run Quake III.