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Title: Raspberry Pi $25 PC
Post by: ARTgames on October 27, 2011, 04:44:31 PM
Quote from: ECEXCURSIONHas anyone else seen this? It looks pretty neat to me.

http://www.raspberrypi.org/ (http://www.raspberrypi.org/)

(http://www.raspberrypi.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/pcb1.jpg)

Relevant news article that caught my attention:
http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/raspberry-pi-25-pc-goes-into-alpha-production-20110728/ (http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/raspberry-pi-25-pc-goes-into-alpha-production-20110728/)

After reading around on the official website and viewing some of the videos I've learned that it can apparently play the Quake 3 demo at a respectable framerate aswell as play 1080P H264 encoded video without problem. Would be pretty neat to strap one on the back of a TV just as a media streaming device or build another car-computer. There are two versions, a $25 version (shown above) and a $35 version with built in NIC and a couple of other expansion slots.

Whatcha think?

I took this post from here:
http://board.byuu.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2114

I think this is a cool idea and inspires my inner geek. Its not much in specs but I think you can get a lot of useful software to run on that. And for that size or price I can see a lot of creatively may be able to go into that.
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi $25 PC
Post by: venuse on October 27, 2011, 06:29:24 PM
what i find truely incredible is that it can play quake 3 i mean this little $25 pc is probably half as powerful as the 3ds.  http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/raspberry-pi-25-pc-runs-quake-iii-20110829/
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi $25 PC
Post by: Freeforall on October 27, 2011, 08:15:56 PM
So, do you think it could run Minecraft if it was cranked down really low?
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi $25 PC
Post by: ARTgames on October 27, 2011, 08:16:58 PM
Quote from: Freeforall on October 27, 2011, 08:15:56 PM
So, do you think it could run Minecraft if it was cranked down really low?
no
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi $25 PC
Post by: Freeforall on October 27, 2011, 08:20:24 PM
Quote from: ARTgames on October 27, 2011, 08:16:58 PM
Quote from: Freeforall on October 27, 2011, 08:15:56 PM
So, do you think it could run Minecraft if it was cranked down really low?
no
Didn't think so.

Well, it was playing Quake III at 1080p with 4xAA, so I was just wondering. Sorry.