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On Jan 16, 2012 11:18 AM, "Kai Hendry" <hendry@xxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 16 January 2012 18:04, tom <tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > No - its not just a toy - its a small compact computer. As such you can do
> > just about anything with it.
>
> Except browse and use it as a Webcam controller for example.
>
> > 256 M Ram was quite common on a lot of usable low end android devices.
>
> I think most people will go for the 128M option. Probably by the time
> Rasberry PI is delivered, the Iphone 5 will have 1G of RAM.
>
> > It might not run badly written bloatware but the CPU is around 1000 times
> > more powerful than the old DEC machine I used to use with 20 other engineers
> > and 130 secretaries on 1 meg of ram. And its got a gpu too....
>
> My thinkpad has a GPU which fails to render any 3D. :}
>
>
> If you want to tackle bloatware, don't run http://linuxmint.com/ In
> fact think of shunning any GNU and Linux altogether for a BSD flavour.
I find it quite amusing, all this talk of the Raspberry being too low powered to do anything serious on the desktop. You are kidding, right? Are websites, sans-Flash, really any bigger and requiring of more RAM or processing than only a few years ago?
Grant.
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