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Started selling compact computer Raspberry Pi, reports BBC News. The price of the unit is 22 pounds sterling, or about $ 35. The computer is a card the size of a credit card. It is sold without housing, without monitor, no mouse and no keyboard. Electricity the device is powered through the port microUSB. Raspberry Pi uses 700-megahertz processor architecture ARM. 35-dollar model has 256 megabytes of RAM, two USB ports and HDMI connectors and Ethernet. The computer runs on Linux. Later on sale of 25-dollar model with 128 megabytes of memory and a USB-port. Project Raspberry Pi - is not the first attempt to create a cheap compact computer. Among similar projects can be noted 89-dollar device BeagleBoard processor-based Texas Instruments and 60-dollar MiniEMBWiFi processor MIPS. The size of a Raspberry Pi can compete announced at the MWC 2012 computer Cotton Candy - its dimensions are comparable to the size of the flash drive. Cotton Candy, however, is $ 199. The creators of Raspberry Pi computer is positioned as a device for teaching children programming. However, the unit has been decided to make available to the public and not limited solely to supply it to the school. See also: Lifebook, which unites our gadgets. Touchscreen can transfer texture materials. 40-inch table-tablet from Samsung: the life of ideas. The laptop with transparent OLED-display from Samsung.

Source: www.lenta.ru/news/2012/02/29/raspberry/