The Raspberry Pi foundation has broken a new record by launching a
computer for the price of just $5 or 4 British pounds.
Ultracompact,
with no pre-installed operating system, Raspberry Pi Zero has just the
essentials -- a processor, RAM, basic ports and a micro-SD card slot.
On the component front, the Raspberry Pi Zero
has a 1Ghz ARM11 processor (40 per cent faster than the one used on the
original Raspberry Pi), 512 MB of RAM, two micro-USB sockets, a
mini-HDMI socket and a micro-SD card slot.
It weighs very little and can be held in one hand (65mm x 30mm x
5mm). It runs on the free operating system Raspbian, which is based on
Linux, and is delivered with a few applications (Scratch, Minecraft and
Sonic Pi)
A few hours after it was put on sale it was already out
of stock. Another way of getting your hands on it is by subscribing to
the (print) magazine The MagPi.
The foundation became famous in
2011 when it launched the Raspberry Pi, a tiny single-board computer
with an ARM processor. Model B+ of this computer is currently available
for $25.
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