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Raspberry Pi Model B Board + 4GB O/S Card

Quick Overview

The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized single-board computer developed in the UK by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. Simply plug into your TV or monitor and keyboard. The Revision 2.0 Model B features 512Mb of RAM, dual USB connector and an ethernet jack.

Details

The Raspberry Pi is a capable little PC which can be used for many of the things that your desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and games. It also plays high-definition video.

The design is based around a Broadcom BCM2835 SoC, which includes an ARM1176JZF-S 700 MHz processor, VideoCore IV GPU, and 512 Megabytes of RAM. This revision 2.0 board features two mounting holes for easy installation, a built-in reset circuit, and can be powered via the USB data ports. The design does not include a built-in hard disk or solid-state drive, instead relying on an SD card for booting and long-term storage. This board is intended to run Linux kernel based operating systems.

The Raspberry Pi use Linux-kernel based operating systems. Debian GNU/Linux, Iceweasel, Calligra Suite and Python are planned to be bundled with the Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi does not come with a real-time clock, so an OS must use a network time server, or ask the user for time information at boot time to get access to time and date info for file time and date stamping. However a real time clock (such as the DS1307) with battery backup can be easily added via the I2C interface.

Now including the 4GB SD card complete with the Debian Rasbian Raspberry PI operating system for one price