Posted on 02/02/2015 5:11:44 AM PST by ShadowAce
We went to the planets with a fraction of this much processing power.
In 5 to 10 years ALL desktop. laptop or tablets will be obsolete.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6sL_5Wgvrg
I’m a reasonably technical guy, and this article strikes me as pretty densely geeky. A lot of vocabulary for the initiated, and plenty of language to make the unwashed glaze over.
That's why it's called the "Tech" ping list!
Okay, I will reveal my ignorance. What is it? A computer motherboard? A new fast cpu chip? How do you use it?
Awesome. Ok, what exactly does one do with this SuperCharged turboblasted GreaseSlapper? I have never seen one.
What are some of the cool things people are doing with these? I think it’s cool and want to play, but I just scratch my head and say I don’t have anything to do with it. Maybe if I built a robot for robot wars :-)
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Thanks but still I’m not seeing the fun for me in it yet. I guess my hobbies aren’t complex enough :-( Or too complex and I need a full computer.
I thought it was a phone and I was going to get one.
Also:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/09/02/epiphany_hits_raspberry_pi_founders_users/
If you want to surf the web, on a $35 computer, using a very boutique browser, you can — and cookies, viruses, and malware would seem to be no concern at all.
Yeah—My plan is to connect one up to a NAS storage device with about 3-4 drives and run a media server on it connected to my Roku.
The Raspberry Pi board is a micro-computer with much more limited capacity than the average laptop or PC. It’s basically a two-chip board about the size of a business card.
The design is intended for experimenters and beginning programmers, linux based, and has direct physical access to the I/O ports on the cpu chip.
I’m currently reading this forum on a B+ but will be obtaining a Pi 2 in the very near future owing to the low capacity I’m working with.
It’s an all-in-one computer. Take that laptop or desktop you’re using and compress it down to something the size of a wallet, and you have a Pi. It’s not going to run Windows, per se, but there are plenty of custom Linux distros focusing on the Pi. I have 3 of them and use them for multimedia centers in my home. They’re amazing.
Pretty awesome for $35
I think I found something: http://winsupersite.com/windows-10/microsoft-confirms-rasperry-pi-2-will-get-windows-10-free
I thought this was a joke site, but apparently this is true.
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