Raspberry Pi presents the $25 PC at ARM TechCon 2011

[isnipe55]

@gunner3210 fair play to you sir congrats :P

[liamgreen94]

Just reordered mine. I hope it goes though. I so want one.

[007foppe]

oh damn its for children to bad for me :(

[omgitzrich]

building a nes cart computer

[jollen123]

"AAAAAH"

[isnipe55]

I'm 13 and I can program

[Gunner3210]

@isnipe55 I earned a diploma in c/c++ programming when I was 10.

[LandonHeat]

pee = 3.14159265

[Macfanize]

@AlejandroBjorg The Raspberry Pi has 256 mb of ram ( less than the Galaxy S II, half as much as the iPhone and the same as the iPod touch 4th gen.)

[TheWooR6]

LOLZ the sd card(32gb) will cost more than the pi ^_^....cant wait for the pi

[soulreaverdoug]

I'm trowing my wallet on the screen and nothing happens.

[zazozizozu1]

a good alternative for Mac users

[walter0bz]

let along teaching people to program, programming is s great way to learn to think generally

[anitatime]

the pricing has caused them issues to find people to be able to make it for that..so they have been wasting time trying to get it made typical uk companies!!

[Gam1ngCZ]

Bad thing this is little laggy. I know, only 256MB of ram, but it will be cool if i maybe buy version with 1gb ram for 40dollars..

[thedudewithwings]

The launch date was delayed to late January 2012/Early February 2012.

[Galeere2]

I would spend 100$ on one with tegra 2 or 3

[AlejandroBjorg]

It is really a cheap computer, I know the CPU is 700Mhz, now I use a Samsung Galaxy S2 and before I had a Samsung Galasxy S (with 1GHz CPU), I have realized that the amount of RAM has been the main factor for the poor performance of Gaxaly S(1), How much RAM does the RaspberryPI have?

[Vaarprime1]

@AlejandroBjorg Model A has 128mb and Model B has 256mb

[raheemf59]

The product has been delayed, its being launched in january- February 2012

[PDRIFT86]

I can"t wait to buy one!!! actually I want at least 3 : -)

one is going in my car (carputer) one for htpc and one to play with!!

[qhoa1385]

It's NOVEMBER! RELEASE IT! lol can't wait! :O

[aobxD]

can i run battlefield 3?

[noneurbuisness777]

@aobxD no haha

[Aeriok]

Now someone just needs to run Doom on it and it's a viable plattform.

[Aeriok]

What I'm wondering is what they want kids to program with, what makes this more newbie-coder friendly than another PC (besides the price, but c'mon, which kid that doesn't have a PC in his house is gonna want to learn programming)? C and the fact that there aren't that many other programs on ARM? C++? That would seem a little hard to teach a kid the basics of programming. Maybe Python? Would love to hear more about that aspect of it,

[SquawksBR]

Run Crysis ?

[marcos3023]

EN: It would be nice to put Google Chrome OS on this computer. Since he is, supposedly, a lightweight OS. ;D

PT-BR: Seria legal se colocassem o Google Chrome OS neste computador. Já que ele é, supostamente, um SO leve. ;D

[jekader]

iceweasel means that it runs debian. Great!

[ToshinoKyoko]

I'll take twenty

[qoaa]

I will definitely be purchasing 4 or 5 to work on different projects

I CANT WAIT!!!

[Gunner3210]

Pi like "pie" right? Why does the guy keep saying "pee" ?

[HiAdrian]

@Gunner3210 In its origin, π is pronounced "pee" if you will. As a non-phonetic language, English gets a lot of these wrong. The whole raspberry wordplay is lost of course.

[turnbacktime]

@Gunner3210 he's american thats why

[DaVince21]

@turnbacktime The interviewer was Danish.

[turnbacktime]

@DaVince21 meh... in all honesty it doesnt really matter how its pronounced.

[DaVince21]

@turnbacktime Indeed, it's a trivial matter.

[Charbax]

@Gunner3210 In french we say pee.

[Lvl22nerd]

@Charbax yeah....you CAN pronounce it that way....or, you know, you can pronounce it correctly...

[Leopoldo888]

@Charbax in spanish, french, italian, portuguese, and in the origilal language PI sounds like "pee", not as "pie". American english has a lot of pronunciations errors. Probably it's because american english is bassically a "cowboys/railroad worker language"

[stn82]

@Charbax pi means 3.14...

[smittty1911]

@Charbax the french dont deserve this technology.

[Vlakpage]

@Gunner3210 In Greek it's ['pi] and that's also how we say it here. I don't know why English speaking people always try to make their special way to say things :)

[Gunner3210]

@Vlakpage Aah I see. Good to know.

[GeckoCkCkCk]

@Gunner3210 π is a Greek letter. The Greeks pronounce it that way!

[64Rosso]

@Gunner3210 I reckon Pi stands for "greek pi"=3.14 or, I read recently, is short for Python, the language the OS is written with

[qazxsw21000]

@Gunner3210 It's actually pronounced "pee".

[dumbrevanandras2]

@Gunner3210 it's Pi (pee) for the ones that do math all day, and Apple Pie for the rest of the world

[faustor21]

i want one also.. let's see what can we get out of it.. i'm thinking of many possible uses! ..

Keep the good work, congrats! :)

[HurdUser]

@mikedep333 Amazon is selling the Kindle far below its production costs to promote the platform.

[Charbax]

@HurdUser Actually, I don't think Amazon is selling it below the average production cost once they manufacture millions of the Fire. They are not making much profit on the hardware for sure, they only plan to profit from content, extra product sales, extra prime subscription sales etc.

[SquirrelFromGradLife]

Open-source! WE can now build this little 25 dollar gem into almost anything... and that Broadcom ARM11 chip is so amazing for it's size, cost and power consumption. If this little thing had USB2 on it you could easily turn it into a HD fullframe video camera using the chip for image processing, noise reduction, image stabilization and auto focus. You would need a lot more memory than 250 MB though and connection to a SSD drive!

[ktownskates]

The man displaying the Rasp Pi is very well spoken.

[electrodacus]

I'm waiting for this 35$ ARM board.

I'm just disappointed a bit about the new power supply for the final version that will be mainly linear so low efficiency compared to a DC-DC converter.

And probably there will be not enough data (specification) for the SOC.

Seems that the SD access is quite slow not sure if this will improve.

Still hopping to see this before the end of this year. 

[Frub3nz]

If I can get Haiku, Gentoo, or Arch to run on this, my life will be complete.

[CHRISLYONZUK]

Arch Linux would be great for this. I'm pretty sure there are ARM versions of it.

[AllofVideos]

Amazing!

[finsoldier]

Shut up and take my money!

[ffuentese]

I would like to see a raspi opening YouTube

[PleaseNeverDoThis]

"when they come out, buy one"

ALL OF MY MONEY.

[shaurz]

I'll be buying a few and see what I can do with them.

[turnbacktime]

@shaurz same here, I'm planning to take over the world.

[macemoneta]

Absolutely amazing device at the price-point. This is competing at the Arduino price, but offers orders of magnitude additional functionality and performance. Incredible engineering - thank-you for making this possible!

[mc0nstable]

One downside is "only" 10/100 ethernet and not 1000 plus USB3... or, call me a NAS.

Also, if they wanted to demonstrate decent software performance then they should have had a Qt5/QML demo as that already takes advantage of the proprietary GPU EGL driver. And if education is a target then QML/Javascript is the new 21st century LOGO.. with touch-ready interface built in. Showing a slow stuttering old-world desktop interface was disappointing.

[Damnated6mil]

@mc0nstable good luck building a PC with a touch-ready interface for $25.

[mikedep333]

@Damnated6mil Yeah, the kindle fire's display/touch-screen is believed to cost $60 alone.

[ffuentese]

@mc0nstable The RaspberryPi is amazing and you can look at the official website to see "performance" demonstrations with HD video or QT. Videos that are in YouTube too.

[mc0nstable]

"... when they come out, buy one"

Absolutely will do, maybe a couple of them. It surprises me somewhat it's taken 5 years (since 2006) to get this formula right and that neither the Chinese or Indian manufacturers managed to pull it off first. I know about the Indian "$10" laptop effort but it's nowhere near as performant as this device. Well done RPI, you have nailed the right combination, including being a non-profit organisation, to finally provide "earth computer one".

[bobdeloyd]

I've been watching Raspberry Pi for over a year now and they're finally coming out with a $25 computer! I want one!!!!!!!

I'm going to get one!