The Raspberry Pi $35 open-source computer has gone on sale,
and early demand for the incredibly capable mini-PC has already
seen retail partner sites melt down under the stress.

Announced back in 2011, as part of the $25 computer project,
the $35 version is the more advanced “Model B” unit
which has seemingly grabbed the attention of developers and tinkerers.
Meanwhile, the $25 “Model A” version is going into production now.



Although the Raspberry Pi was intended as an educational tool, with
the foundation behind the computer hoping to motivate schools
into teaching programming skills as part of the curriculum,
its surprisingly potent processing power quickly grabbed the focus.
Early demos showed it capably running Quake III, with
subsequent demos showing unofficial AirPlay support.

In fact, the Model B is tipped to have twice the GPU power of the iPhone 4S
and be capable of roasting NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 in raw grunt.



You can find details on how to buy over at the Raspberry Pi site,
though at time of writing one retailer, Farnell, is sold out, and
the other is asking for would-be buyers to “express interest”
with next deliveries expected at the end of next week.
The stock took just two hours to be depleted.





This post has been edited by general_odin: Feb 29 2012, 09:46 PM

what you guys think about this ?? pretty cool eh ?

It's awesome, now to find one.

It is great gadget to explore ideas with your programming and hardware hacking skills...

This post has been edited by I<3LYN: Mar 1 2012, 01:52 AM

haha indeed... i think we can load an android in it and play around ? haha

can use for htpc as well with xbmc

i can imagine if this thing lod into our LED TV than our TV will call SmartTV already lol

This really a potential item, the size really good for mobility and flexible to come with a lot new idea

Someone wanna bulk order?

I also have the thinking of first thing to do with it is to make my house old tv into a smart TV LOL

haha, yeah i think we should gather people to do bulk order... but its only available in uk at the moment and its sold out within the first 2 hours after being made available to the market

integrate into our homes and fire up ios5... "Jarvis, let there be light" hahaha

ordered from element14

where to buy?

Wow, great. I'm can't even get into the preorder stage...
Finally we have a cheaper alternative to the beagleboard to play with.

element14 doesnt offer package one that comes with all the cable etc

I thought they will never sell more than 1 per customer so no bulk orders?

Official website already mention can open for ppl to buy more than one

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Added on March 2, 2012, 11:41 pm"Today’s sales are limited to one per customer, so that as many of you as possible are able to get their hands on one. Starting in a month or so, you will be able to place batch orders with both Premier Farnell and RS Components for as many units as you want; you’ll also save some money on postage by doing this."

This post has been edited by kailoonthedog: Mar 2 2012, 11:41 PM

By the way if we get this, how to install OS onto it?

lol what u mean = = , it's just like ordinary computer just it's small and not so much space and memory and computing power compare to a full fledge pc

But it's not x86 ma right?