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The new Raspberry Pi 2 which is $35 can run Windows 10 IoT. It has 1 GB of RAM, a quad-core 900 MHz CPU, and typically consumes around 0.3 watts (0.9W on a heav
by winter_blue 11y ago
The new Raspberry Pi 2 which is $35 can run Windows 10 IoT. It has 1 GB of RAM, a quad-core 900 MHz CPU, and typically consumes around 0.3 watts (0.9W on a heavy load). And Microsoft's giving away Windows IoT for free.
Considering that most desktop boxes consume 200 to 400 watts typically, the cost of Pi could be recovered fairly quickly in the saved electric costs.
- cmdrfred 11y agoYou can get a reasonable windows 8 desktop for 300 dollars. If it increased productivity even by a small margin (less then a dollars worth a day) it's paid for itself before the end of the year.
- anonbanker 11y agoI think it's nice that microsoft is lowering their OS's price to the same rate that Raspbian charges. Sadly, Office on the Pi2 will cost money. Luckily, Raspbian and LibreOffice are still 100% free.
- pjmlp 11y agoAs we say on my home country, one gets what he pays for.
- anonbanker 11y agoyour home country doesn't have free software? what a magical place. I assume your country's DNS servers are running on Windows Server, and the main webservers are running Microsoft IIS? Sad thing is, with Windows Licensing v.7, you barely get what you paid for, and only if you use Free Software as leverage to get a low enough price.
- pjmlp 11y agoMost companies use MSDN subscriptions. Home users don't give a damm about source code and just pirate what they cannot buy. They see little value in using less functional software (on their eyes) vs what the commercial products offer.
- davidgerard 11y agoThe new rPi runs LO in Linux out the box, of course.