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Is the Raspberry Pi real at that price?

13yoMe: I get in the shit 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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Chris Baird
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sony is just about to bring out a tablet with windows 8 on it.

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F Murtz

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

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Nico Coesel

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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krw

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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Joel Koltner

Isn't that what dot net is for?

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keithr

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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Joel Koltner

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