Το… θαυματουργό Raspberry Pi mini τώρα έχει περισσότερη RAM…\

Αναβαθμίστηκε και από 256MB πήγε στα 512MB αν και παραμένει στα $35. Όπως είπε ο κος Eben Upton, σχεδιαστής και ιδρυτής του Raspberry Pi Foundation, η επιπλέον RAM έρχεται μετά τις παραινέσεις για μια ακριβότερο Model C έκδοση με περισσότερη RAM αλλά χωρίς αύξηση τιμής αφού το Foundation είναι: “very attached to $35 as our highest price point”.

“There were a lot of boards like Raspberry Pi in the $200 range but not a lot in the $25 to $35 range,” είπε στο techcrunch.com: “You’ve got to see [price] as our differentiator. The big impressive thing we’ve done, as far as I’m concerned, is to make this stuff cheap and available – we’re not making anything that didn’t exist before, but we’re making a thing that previously was very expensive [affordable].”

Έγραψε σε blog στο Foundation website ο κος Upton και είπε πως από σήμερα όλα τα Model B Raspberry Pis θα φεύγουν με 512MB RAM – το Model A θα είναι έκδοση στα $25 του Pi χωρίς Ethernet.

Αναλυτικά:

One of the most common suggestions we’ve heard since launch is that we should produce a more expensive “Model C” version of Raspberry Pi with extra RAM. This would be useful for people who want to use the Pi as a general-purpose computer, with multiple large applications running concurrently, and would enable some interesting embedded use cases (particularly using Java) which are slightly too heavyweight to fit comfortably in 256MB.

The downside of this suggestion for us is that we’re very attached to $35 as our highest price point. With this in mind, we’re pleased to announce that from today all Model B Raspberry Pis will ship with 512MB of RAM as standard. If you have an outstanding order with either distributor, you will receive the upgraded device in place of the 256MB version you ordered. Units should start arriving in customers’ hands today, and we will be making a firmware upgrade available in the next couple of days to enable access to the additional memory.

I’d like to thank our partners, RS Components and element14/Premier Farnell, and the suppliers, particularly Samsung, Sony and Broadcom, for all their help in delivering a smooth transition to the 512MB. I’m looking forward to seeing what you all get up to with your shiny new Pis.