[ale] [OT] - Raspberry Pi 2

[dev null zero two]

it's pretty neat, but it still has the same limitations as the original:
you can't buy the chip unless you're fucking Apple or Google or NASA.
you're stuck buying the boards so you can't build a product around it. it's
awesome for hobbyists though.

definitely gonna pick up a few.

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Jim Kinney <jkinney at jimkinney.us> wrote:

> hardware heads should be trouncing all over this this already but the
> RP2 is available today. It uses the same video as earlier but now has a
> quad-core arm7 cpu and 1G RAM.
>
>   !!!
>
> Adafruit.com ($44.95) is slammed and sold out already.
>
> The Raspberry Pi 2 delivers 6 times the processing capacity of previous
> models. This second generation Raspberry Pi has an upgraded Broadcom
> BCM2836 processor, which is a powerful ARM Cortex-A7 based quad-core
> processor that runs at 900MHz. The board also features an increase in
> memory capacity to 1Gbyte.
>
>       * Broadcom BCM2836 SoC
>       * Quad-core ARM Cortex-A7
>       * 900 MHz
>       * Dual Core VideoCore IV® Multimedia Co-Processor
>       * Provides Open GL ES 2.0, hardware-accelerated OpenVG, and
>         1080p30 H.264 high-profile decode
>       * Capable of 1Gpixel/s, 1.5Gtexel/s or 24GFLOPs with texture
>         filtering and DMA infrastructure
>       * 1GB LPDDR2
>       * Boots from Micro SD card, running a version of the Linux
>         operating system 85 x 56 x 17mm
>       * Micro USB socket 5V, 2A
>
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