Raspberry Pi - Released February 29th.

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  • TadpoleTadpole Posts: 1,646
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    I stand corrected re my earlier comment re HDMI ports.

    Looks like the Model A has = compared to the Model B : (a) lower price. (b) One USB port driven directly by the SoC instead of two. (c) lower power consumption - 300mA instead of 700mA (d) No Ethernet port (e) No USB hub (f) 256MB RAM instead of 512MB.
  • and101and101 Posts: 2,688
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    It will be interesting to see how low you can get the power consumption on the Model A. It uses a linear 3.3V regulator which wastes a lot of energy as heat so replacing that with a very efficient switch-mode regulator should cut the power consumption down closer to 200mA.
  • TadpoleTadpole Posts: 1,646
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    The new 2013-02-09 version of Raspbian - on the website for download - appears to speed up X for apps quite a bit. Still not going to set any performance records, I think the CPU on the pi is roughly equiv to a Pentium II.

    http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads
  • rossi_drrossi_dr Posts: 1,206
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    think i need to look at this and buy it. ty
  • TadpoleTadpole Posts: 1,646
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    BBC Radio Wales - "Science Cafe" - Feb 12th
    "Adam Walton visits the Welsh factory producing the revolutionary Raspberry Pi computer."

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01qn9zt/Science_Cafe_12_02_2013/
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