PC at Price of Textbook
There is growing interest surrounding the Raspberry Pi Foundation and their promise of a PC that will cost just $25. We have seen how the OLPC has struggled to deliver a $100 laptop for developing countries, and yet Raspberry Pi is confident in delivering the $25 PC by November 2011. Eben Upton, director of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, explained that the $25 price point was decided upon because it is the cost of a textbook so it made sense. The foundation has also realized that the $35 PC with more RAM and a network port is going to be the most popular device by a significant margin. Something we did not realize is that Raspberry Pi not only intend to make this PC work through a HDMI and DVI connection, they also want it plugged into old analog TVs just like kids managed with in the 80s. It also means you do not need an up-to-date display in order to start playing with this device.
http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/why-a-25-pc-because-its-the-price-of-a-textbook-2011091/
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