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Raspberry pi
« on: March 11, 2012, 11:00:32 AM »
http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs

Looks pretty interesting, and at $25 the price is pretty cool too. Not bad for a bit of web surfing etc.

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Re: Raspberry pi
« Reply #1 on: March 11, 2012, 01:19:08 PM »
Um... read the full FAQ.  You'll need to spend $35 to get the ethernet port (model B).

There has been a lot of hype over this but I question the practical usage of it.  Seems interesting in general but you still have to have a keyboard, mouse, and a monitor or TV.  For anyone that needs a low-end computer like this, they might not have those items.

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Re: Raspberry pi
« Reply #2 on: March 12, 2012, 07:28:50 AM »
Could you use this as a really cheap media PC, just storing media on the SD card or streaming it from somewhere?

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Re: Raspberry pi
« Reply #3 on: March 12, 2012, 07:44:57 AM »
It seems like they really don't give you shit.
hey ethic if you and i were both courting lily allen..... oh wait, which one of us has a relationship that lasted more than the bus ride home?

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Re: Raspberry pi
« Reply #4 on: March 12, 2012, 08:57:10 AM »
Could you use this as a really cheap media PC, just storing media on the SD card or streaming it from somewhere?
In theory, yeah.  It has an HDMI port and it's meant to connect to a TV or something.  You'd probably have better luck streaming from either an external HD or your local network though.  You're not going to get much on an SD card.

It seems like they really don't give you shit.
That's kind of the point?

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Re: Raspberry pi
« Reply #5 on: March 12, 2012, 09:04:53 AM »
> You're not going to get much on an SD card.

It looks like it's a microSD, and you can get 32GB microsd cards pretty cheap.  I wouldn't totally replace streaming movies and things from my PC with it, but it seems like it'd be a nice cheap simple way to access some things without having to put a physical PC in my living room

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Re: Raspberry pi
« Reply #6 on: March 12, 2012, 09:15:37 AM »
Well, yeah... forgot you could get those cards that big.  I guess I don't worry about that type of usage since my Tivo already streams across my network.

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Re: Raspberry pi
« Reply #7 on: March 12, 2012, 09:31:07 AM »
My XBox does too, but only for specific file formats (and then of course Netflix and other apps it has), but it'd be kind of neat to have something that could do Hulu and youtube and whatever else.

edit: not to mention games

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Re: Raspberry pi
« Reply #8 on: March 12, 2012, 09:43:11 AM »
... get a Tivo.  ;)

Not sure how you'd do the games part.  Rasberry pi definitely would not help with that.  It doesn't have the power.

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Re: Raspberry pi
« Reply #9 on: March 12, 2012, 09:56:55 AM »
Oh, I definitely wouldn't be trying to do anything modern, but it'd be neat to play simcity or something on a 55" TV.  I 've got no idea what would run on linux.  Just thinking out loud

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Re: Raspberry pi
« Reply #10 on: March 12, 2012, 10:07:33 AM »
Other uses:
  • Cheap way to give students a computer for school use.  It is powerful enough to run quite a lot.  It is small and compact so they could easily transport it between home and a lab.
  • An easy base for building devices.
  • Sheer geekness

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Re: Raspberry pi
« Reply #11 on: March 12, 2012, 10:51:17 AM »
Micah, are you reading this?

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Re: Raspberry pi
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Re: Raspberry pi
« Reply #13 on: March 12, 2012, 01:35:49 PM »
Could you use this as a really cheap media PC, just storing media on the SD card or streaming it from somewhere?

Sure. Just stick a USB HDD on it, and you're gtg.

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Re: Raspberry pi
« Reply #14 on: March 12, 2012, 01:36:18 PM »
Previous thread: http://www.entropysink.com/forums/index.php?topic=10704.0

Gah. Knew I'd seen it somewhere before.

It seems like they really don't give you shit.

For $25 you want a Macbook Pro?