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Two million Raspberry Pi sold

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Re: Two million Raspberry Pi sold

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I am running two Tor nodes on two raspberries:

https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/B679923178D2B63F22C984...

https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/0A7028F6600F940D1A680A...

A single pi can push about 600 kb/s. This includes a lot of circuit requests and other encryption. Thinking of buying some more.

Re: Two million Raspberry Pi sold

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What's the plan for future devices? It would be great if some low cost device like this would have a 12-18 month upgrade cycle and create the sort of buzz as an Apple or Samsung device. Moore's law has benefits at $30 too. Maybe release a $99 version every year then make last year's model available at $35. Get Intel involved? They're really working hard to get into low-power devices.

Re: Two million Raspberry Pi sold

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post #4

What's the plan for future devices? It would be great if some low cost device like this would have a 12-18 month upgrade cycle and create the sort of buzz as an Apple or Samsung device. Moore's law has benefits at $30 too. Maybe release a $99 version every year then make last year's model available at $35. Get Intel involved? They're really working hard to get into low-power devices.

Yes! I am waiting desperately for a Raspberry Pi with an updated CPU!

Re: Two million Raspberry Pi sold

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post #4

What's the plan for future devices? It would be great if some low cost device like this would have a 12-18 month upgrade cycle and create the sort of buzz as an Apple or Samsung device. Moore's law has benefits at $30 too. Maybe release a $99 version every year then make last year's model available at $35. Get Intel involved? They're really working hard to get into low-power devices.

Except that raspberry runs on arm. Don't see that changing any time soon.

Re: Two million Raspberry Pi sold

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I absolutely love how ubiquitous these things have become. They're genuinely useful for a lot of different purposes but, to me personally, I like how eco they are. I realize this sounds a bit eco-hipster, but I really mean it: Whereas people used to have big media center machines under their TVs, you can just pop a Pi underneath your TV, install RaspBMC, and that's all you need. It takes 3-4w, nothing more. Lovely.

Having said that, a 60" TV and surround sound receiver will probably also take a least a few watts, if I had to guesstimate :)

Re: Two million Raspberry Pi sold

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I'd like to hear a little about the educational successes that RPi may have achieved since launch. That was the goal, right?

Lots of schools now have Raspberry Pi clubs - often teaching programming and basic hardware stuff.

I've been teaching a Scratch class in my local library (https://www.codeclub.org.uk/) which has also been distributing Pi's to kids and classrooms.

I'm sure there are some more verified statistics - but from an anecdotal POV, they've been a resounding success.

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