<div dir="ltr"><div id=":l9.co">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.<br><br></div><div id=":l9.co">definitely gonna pick up a few.<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jkinney@jimkinney.us" target="_blank">jkinney@jimkinney.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">hardware heads should be trouncing all over this this already but the<br>
RP2 is available today. It uses the same video as earlier but now has a<br>
quad-core arm7 cpu and 1G RAM.<br>
<br>
!!!<br>
<br>
Adafruit.com ($44.95) is slammed and sold out already.<br>
<br>
The Raspberry Pi 2 delivers 6 times the processing capacity of previous<br>
models. This second generation Raspberry Pi has an upgraded Broadcom<br>
BCM2836 processor, which is a powerful ARM Cortex-A7 based quad-core<br>
processor that runs at 900MHz. The board also features an increase in<br>
memory capacity to 1Gbyte.<br>
<br>
* Broadcom BCM2836 SoC<br>
* Quad-core ARM Cortex-A7<br>
* 900 MHz<br>
* Dual Core VideoCore IV® Multimedia Co-Processor<br>
* Provides Open GL ES 2.0, hardware-accelerated OpenVG, and<br>
1080p30 H.264 high-profile decode<br>
* Capable of 1Gpixel/s, 1.5Gtexel/s or 24GFLOPs with texture<br>
filtering and DMA infrastructure<br>
* 1GB LPDDR2<br>
* Boots from Micro SD card, running a version of the Linux<br>
operating system 85 x 56 x 17mm<br>
* Micro USB socket 5V, 2A<br>
<br>
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