$35 Raspberry Pi computer goes on sale, promptly sells out

The highly-anticipated $35 Raspberry Pi micro computer went on sale today, just narrowly making the promised February launch window thanks to leap year. The device sold out within a matter…

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Can anyone tell me what you will use this for?

Crysis, what else?

Any number of things. I'll be using it for an HTPC.

I'm going to be using it as a "smart" upgrade to my "dumb" older TVs. They even have a version of XBMC that has been successfully ported to the Pi (raspbmc).

Other than that, it's a good tinkering and education opportunity, which is actually what it was originally conceptualized for. Very low cost & open platform that will appeal to the hacker/maker community. It's the computer equivalent of an Arduino board for many.

Will it run ubuntu?

will someone make a handheld gaming system out of it?

let's see some OC numbers! lol

I will use it for cryptography and quantum physics!

got my self one... cant wait !

Congrats! They sold out so fast, I didn't have a prayer. Hopefully the next shipment comes in soon