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Raspberry Pi’s $25 computer inches closer to reality – Video

08/13/2011 at 10:33 AM by Brad Linder 7 Comments

Raspberry Pi Alpha Board

Raspberry Pi plans to develop a miniature, low power computer that can be sold for about $25. The company is still a few steps away from that dream, but this week Raspberry Pi got one step closer with the introduction of a new alpha board that’s a fully functional computer that fits in the palm of your hand.

The computer features an application processor, 256MB of memory, 2 USB ports, an SD card slot, and Ethernet jack. It’s actually much larger than the final version will be. The hope is to shrink the system so that it can fit in the palm of your hand while still offering the same features.

Not only is the new prototype larger than the final version, but it’s also more expensive. But the team is hoping to bring the cost down so that a model with 128MB of RAM and an Ethernet jack will sell for $25 while a second model with twice the RAM and the two USB ports will cost $30 or $35.

Either way, that’s a remarkably cheap price for a computer that’s expected to be able to a Linux-based operating system.

Of course, the price doesn’t cover the cost of a monitor, keyboard, mouse, or other peripherals. But those items may be easier to come by for the schools and other institutions that Raspberry Pi hopes to reach with its affordable computing platform.

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This is really cool but is it designed for home consumers or corporations? 

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The Raspberry Pi Foundation is a UK non-profit, and this product is primarily intended as a tech toy slash teaching tool for students. 

So anyone can use it but it’s more home consumer/geek friendly than anything else.

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I think it has a lot of potential; especially for those who like to make their own cases (since it is smaller, the potential cases can be smaller too and varied). 🙂

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With min-itx, nano-itx and pico-itx inspiring very unique computer cases, I think some thing this small would inspire cases that are not only unique but small. 🙂 Like the ones listed on the projects page at http://www.mini-itx.com

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I’d love to have one of these to hook up to my TV for media streaming from NAS, light web browsing, or old console emulation.

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the $25 price is a bit misleading, since a case, power supply, and memory are not included.

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If one already has them or uses inexpensive ones, it could mean that the overall price is lower than the traditional computer cost. If one uses cases that are not normally thought of as cases, one could create some thing quite unique. check out the projects page at http://www.mini-itx.com

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