These days we have cheap good low power intels. The pentium core g620t for instance idles at less than 25w. If you want to go cheaper, amd brazos is nice too but not so power effective. On Feb 2, 2012 1:02 AM, "Lars" <nore...@z505.com> wrote:
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi > > > > It's called viral marketing, PR, social crap whatever. Raspberry Pi > > foundation claims something about support for schools and > > blahblahblah, but in fact was created but one of engineers of > > Broadcom. It's just test bed for their proprietary crap or vendor lock > > in via children and a way how to lower taxes via charity organization > > without real charity. > > > > > > > What's so funny is that they put GNU/Linux on it, when gNU is supposed to > be about FREE dom. LOL. Fucking LOL. > > I think Raspberry Pi isn't so useful for my needs anyway because for > example it only has one network port, not two or three... > > For poor people in third world countries I think they would be better off > buying used 1ghz-2ghz Desktop computers for $50/each that includes PCI > slots and such. I've purchased some computers less than 50 dollars. The > only advantage of the raspberry pi over a used desktop PC is that it uses > much less power (1 Watt or whatever) and that it is really small. I don't > see how a small tiny circuit will help third world countries but I can see > an advantage to 1 watt electricity.
