02 February 2015

Raspberry Pi 2

Gizmodo's article about the Raspberry Pi 2 came up in my best friend's news feed on Facebook, which ended up in mine after he liked it.

From what I posted yesterday (or early this morning if you want to get technical), there's not much different, but the article does link to a store that sells them for (presumably) North America. (Direct link here)

It seems like the ethernet is indeed 10/100 as I had thought, so using it as a bittorrent client is definitely out of the question. However, I think I might just get the Pi 2 instead of it and the B+ together. Considering the quad-core on the Pi 2, there wouldn't be any problem with having it being an FTP while I do other things - I'd also just be able to mount it to the "case" I recently made which would keep the SoC relatively cool.

I'm sure MCM Electronics is a pretty decent online store, and while the BBB rating/review is pretty good,  I'm not too happy with how slow the site took to load (maybe because everyone wants the Pi 2?), so I'll wait for now (I don't have money for it anyway).

(Edit)

On the Raspberry Pi blog, there's a post about the Pi 2, and a couple links to retailers Element 14 and RS Components - with Element 14 not working correctly. I checked again at Newark and it was also there, so options are definitely available.

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