[Arm-netbook] R-Pi Only Better and More Available?

[Gordan Bobic]

On 05/26/2012 05:35 PM, Tsvetan Usunov - OLIMEX Ltd wrote:
>     http://www.reghardware.com/2012/05/22/chip_maker_via_outs_49_dollar_raspberry_pi_alike/
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> this seems to have put RPi team in panic :)

As it should.

They made a terrible call with just 256MB of RAM (of which you lose 64MB 
for the GPU), and then proceeded to vigorously defend their decision 
when _everybody_ told them that this is a _massive_ issue, doubly so on 
a device with no SATA interface or any other cheap way of achieving 
reasonably performing swap (100Mbit ethernet means swapping over iSCSI 
is going to be less than blazing, and a USB SSD like the RC8 costs 3x 
more than the R-Pi).

They made the classical mistake of trying to shave the last couple of $ 
from the price tag and cut so many corners that the product is 
completely round.

Gordan