Bare bones Raspberry Pi PC gets ready to launch

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Originally Posted by Sphinx

Sounds cool for a simple node on a network for very basic stuff, but Id rather just get a zino/mini type desktop thats slightly larger and alot more functional.

Ya i agree with this but it is still fun to mess around with embedded applications.

Things i want to try out with it would be XBMC, MPD, Terminal Client, etc

[Rykoshet]

The uses are unlimited...it really is a shame that people aren't into hardware as they used to be. Now everyone who wants to get into computers builds apps.

What happened to parallel ports and 8088s?

[Patrick]

Looked at getting one of these, but between a pandaboard, beaglebone, spare palm pixis (arm cpu, ram, plus kb and screen for around 40 nowadays, plus the os is based on openembedded), and soon maybe an allwinner card, I have enough little arm things to play with.

[v1k1ng1001]

You know what work surprisingly well?...media streamers like Roku, etc.. I set up a Western Digital for my folks over Christmas and a Roku for my neighbor and I was shocked to find that the picture quality was better than my dual-core atom htpc.

[Tinderbox (UK)]

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Revolutionary £22 Raspberry Pi that is a working PC (just add screen, keyboard and mouse) | Mail Online

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Already pre-ordered after getting DOS for a couple of hours