Is the Raspberry Pi real at that price?I can't help but think when you sell 10K pieces of an item at bargain basementprices, (and in a single day), and in advance of having the products, that there may be something very wrong.They have entered into licensed manufacture partnerships with two Britishcompanies, Premier Farnell and RS Components.That means there has to be a dealer margin. If you can retail it at $25, thenhow much did it cost wholesale?I may be barking up the wrong tree, but am I one of the few sensing somethingmay be very wrong with this deal?Have a look at what Tsvetan from Olimex said in a forum thread about it here:Anyone have insider information that what I am saying is completely off the mark?Comments?Of course, If I am off the mark, this will be more free advertising for them. :-)Cheers Don...========================-- Don McKenzieDontronics: DuinoMite the PIC32 $35 Basic Computer-MicroController add a VGA monitor or TV, and PS2 Keyboard.Arduino Shield, Programmed in Basic, or C.

"Don McKenzie" schreef in bericht news:The current version is $35,-. The $25,- version has been announced however.petrus bitbyter

It could be, although I wouldn't bet any money that Win8-ARM will be able to take a program in IDL format, compile it, and run it; I'd wager you'll have to go back to the original source file in C# or or whatever and generate a new IDL.In fact, I seem to recall that they won't be supporting the old Win32 API on the ARM implementation at all -- only the new "Metro" API. But I could be wrong about that...---Joel

Is the Raspberry Pi real at that price?

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Chris Baird 14 years ago

13yoMe: I get in the s*it with Mum if I install software on the 'family' computer. Just because there's 2 computers (and 3 iPhones) in the house doesn't mean I have full access to any of them; 'Responsible Parenting', yada yada.

The Parents are network-illiterate and use Telstra BigPond for internet access too-- "no, you won't be downloading anything BECAUSE MONEY". I hope the next computer in the house is a Mac, as there's at least 'real software' like Perl, Python, GCC, et.al. included in the stock system.

So... all that is why PICs and crap like that are hated by 13yo nerds. Yeah, it might be the era of obese spoilt middle-class white Gen Y kids, but being a teenage nerd is still suffering.

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F Murtz 14 years ago

sony is just about to bring out a tablet with windows 8 on it.

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Nico Coesel 14 years ago

I wonder if Windows 8 for ARM is the same as Windows 8 for X86 or just a rebadged Windows CE like WP7.

Failure does not prove something is impossible, failure simply indicates you are not using the right tools... nico@nctdevpuntnl (punt=.) --------------------------------------------------------------

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krw 14 years ago

I think your last point nails it. Perhaps an x86 tablet is less than useful, without a real keyboard[*]. That's why the x86 "tablets" are "convertibles" with the display folding back over the keyboard.

[*] Spilled a cup of coffee in this keyboard last night and a few of the keys are less than real. :-( At least the laptop powered back on this morning.

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Joel Koltner 14 years ago

I expect that 90+% of the source code between the two is identical.

Microsoft has explicitly stated that they're making no provision for running x86 code via emulation (or whatever) on ARM -- all x86 Windows programs are going to have to be re-compiled, at the least, to run on it.

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keithr 14 years ago

Isn't that what dot net is for?

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Joel Koltner 14 years ago

It could be, although I wouldn't bet any money that Win8-ARM will be able to take a program in IDL format, compile it, and run it; I'd wager you'll have to go back to the original source file in C# or VB.net or whatever and generate a new IDL.

In fact, I seem to recall that they won't be supporting the old Win32 API on the ARM implementation at all -- only the new "Metro" API. But I could be wrong about that...

---Joel

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