Raspberry Pi 2!

[Nes4life]

The Raspberry Pi 2 just went up for sale! 6x more powerful, 1GB of RAM... at the same price!
http://www.raspberrypi.org/raspberry-pi-2-on-sale/

http://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-2-model-b/

Buy for £22.85:

http://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/processor-microcontroller-development-kits/832-6274/

 

[guddler]

Interesting - hopefully this time round it won't be completely underpowered and underwhelming!!

 

[david_orton_2000]

Wow!!!
Awesome

 

[david_orton_2000]

I'm actually going to a big Raspberry Pi conference in Cambridge at the end of Feb, very popular and mostly sold out already!

 

[Nes4life]

Actually powerful enough to run an OS and chunky IDE like QT now. Says it can run windows 10 too (if you're that way inclined). I tried QT on a B+ but was a little sluggish; still worked though. The web browser was also quite slow on B+.

With it nearly at 1Ghz (quad core) and 1GB of ram, it's starting to look like a 'real' PC (you know what I mean)... no doubt you'd make a descent netbook from one now.

I bet MAME runs pretty well on it now.

 

[david_orton_2000]

...and for £30....well, can't go wrong!
You cannot even get a meal at the pub for 2 (with drinks) for that! ;-)

 

[virtvic]

Mmmm. Skinny mame in a lunch box?

 

[maskeddev]

I got given a Raspberry Pi 2 today. Not a bad gift at all!!

Now I s'pose I should find something cool to do with it... right now, I have very few ideas.

Help me out lazyweb

 

[Nes4life]

I got given a Raspberry Pi 2 today.

Free Pi! Living the dream

There's so much you could do. My work colleague has made an automated 'M&M sorting machine' (no really! It went viral with over 1m views on YouTube). You could put retropie or MAME on it. I'm using it to show my daughter what a computer essentially is, how to code, and play Minecraft. I also have a project for it as a live map to update my family on my commute status (via my iPhone).
Go crazy!