Raspberry Pi Zero released

benje302

The RP foundation released the new zero model today. A single board computer for the grand old sum of £4 Uk and $5 usd.

For people who do not know what a Pi is it will not be replacing your standard computer.

For anyone interested see the link below

https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/pi-zero/

Ben

motorguy

benje302 wrote: »

For people who do not know what a Pi is it will not be replacing your standard computer.

Ben

No reason why you couldn't run a Pi as a standard computer

agrinnall

If you can find a copy it's included with the current issue of MagPi magazine, although the word is that the shelves are being cleared very quickly.

zax47

motorguy wrote: »

No reason why you couldn't run a Pi as a standard computer

Indeed, but this Pi Zero is not a Pi as you know it, rather a very cut down (yes even for a Pi) device designed for embedding, not making a "computer" or media centre from....

https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/pi-zero/

Yes, it's only £4 (that's also the magazine price it's being given away on the cover, yes really - taped on) 10,000 copies available and fetching >£20 or more on Ebay already.

stator

motorguy wrote: »

No reason why you couldn't run a Pi as a standard computer

If you want to access the internet I wouldn't recommend it.
I suppose you could use the mobile versions of every website, but most websites these days are resource intensive.

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stator wrote: »

If you want to access the internet I wouldn't recommend it.
I suppose you could use the mobile versions of every website, but most websites these days are resource intensive.

My son seems quite happy browsing the web on his raspberry pi 2 using the Chromium browser.

Ok, it won't do a lot of stuff very fast, but it's a very cheap option for kids

Such a shame they don't build wifi onto the board of these..it'd make them far more useful

Fightsback

ringo_24601 wrote: »

My son seems quite happy browsing the web on his raspberry pi 2 using the Chromium browser.

Ok, it won't do a lot of stuff very fast, but it's a very cheap option for kids

Such a shame they don't build wifi onto the board of these..it'd make them far more useful

Perhaps one of these ?

If you need to ask the price, you can't afford it.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9779/nvidia-announces-jetson-tx1-tegra-x1-module-development-kit

pappa_golf

Fightsback wrote: »

Perhaps one of these ?

If you need to ask the price, you can't afford it.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9779/nvidia-announces-jetson-tx1-tegra-x1-module-development-kit

an intel nuc , on a diet

securityguy

The Nvidia thing, including the rather larger carrier board, is £450 plus VAT. That's a lot of machine for the money, if your workload parallelises appropriately.

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securityguy wrote: »

The Nvidia thing, including the rather larger carrier board, is £450 plus VAT. That's a lot of machine for the money, if your workload parallelises appropriately.

You could buy 112 Rp0s for that!