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New RaspberryPi
A new ARM microPC running Linux. ~ $35.

http://www.raspberrypi.org/

http://www.reghardwa..._linux_based_pcs/

I hope they find a way to sell a similarly cheap display with it so that the extremely poor have a way to use it. Otherwise, it looks to me like it'll be competing with used stuff that's a lot more capable.

Cheers,
Scott.
New No matching display
Not their goal. They have RCA for the low end (random cheap TV or text monitor connection) and HDMI for the high end.

They have no competition. They are going to sell out, again and again, for at least a couple of cycles before the competition kicks in. The hobby end will push for as many discrete components as possible, because they are easy to play with, but the core geek drive will be to shrink everything into a single tiny die, and minimize the bulk by limiting the connection points (which will be the major push in size).

In a year or 2 there will be a couple of manufacturers, and then the price and size will be driven down.

Give it another 2 years of design and production, and it'll explode. At that point you will have tiny computers, running off solar cells or vibration->electric generators, using wifi (or whatever is low power enough) meshes, cheap enough to sprinkle around like fairy dust.
New Video for Initial setup...
only for one machine, the rest are duplicated and PXE booted for loading.

At $35 a piece, I can deploy a hundred of them for $3500 and of course the networking switches and wiring and power.

Still be more powerful than much of the stuff I'm using/maintaining.

ARM is very good at power... probably 300 watts for 100 of these devices.
     RaspberryPi - (Another Scott) - (2)
         No matching display - (crazy)
         Video for Initial setup... - (folkert)

Ain't science wunnaful?
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