Just bought a magazine that came with a free computer

[dlevere]

Posted by Just this guy, y'know

The new Raspberry Pi Zero is so cheap and so small, the first 10,000 of them are being given away free on the cover of a magazine.



The Raspberry Pi Zero has the specs of a mid-range 2005 laptop.
A 1GHz processor (40% faster than the original)
512MB RAM
HD video output
Super Tiny (65mm by 30mm)

The original Raspberry Pi was a revolutionary machine, launched in 2012 it was the size of a credit card and sold for $25. It sold the first 100,000 in minutes, but as Segundus told us in 2012 "Cheaper versions are on the way".

Incidentally, this new Pi is small enough and Cheap enough to make a throwie from it.

[MathUser]

512 MB RAM is pretty terrible. But it's pretty small and cheap. So I guess that makes up for the low RAM.

[Pyriel]

You have to bear in mind that these were conceived as a low-cost solution for schools, and other educational and experimental work. They're not meant to game or run the latest apps. They're meant to provide a functional PC for every station in a lab or every student in a school for something like 10% of what it would cost to purchase an equivalent number of low-end machines, and less even than it would probably cost to chuck a bunch of refurbished, 4-year-old Dells in there.

[final kaoss]

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[MIR]

sadly compaires to the CHIP the 9 dollar (8 dollar for cyber monday preorders) is not only a newer arm family, it also has a better GPU family that is much more opensource AND the chip included blutooth and wifi.

The major catch is if you want to use a large but slow SD card, then go for the PI.

If you want a fast EMMC on board then go with the chip.

I find it stupid people are going all APPLE gaga about this new Pi. It is powerhungry and really not much more powerful than the RPI B+