<story><title>Raspberry Pi $25 PC goes into alpha production</title><url>http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/raspberry-pi-25-pc-goes-into-alpha-production-20110728/?hy=2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wccrawford</author><text>&quot;The planend hardware included a 700MHz ARM11 processor, 128MB RAM, OpenGL ES 2.0, and 1080p output.&quot;&lt;p&gt;Is it just me, or does that sound like it might make a decent gaming machine, if you don&apos;t get too greedy about graphics?&lt;p&gt;If that&apos;s the case, the consoles are in trouble!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wtracy</author><text>Alternative option: With a few gigs of read-only memory, you could burn a game image onto it, and market a device dedicated to that single game.&lt;p&gt;You could just about eliminate any and all compatibility and piracy issues, you wouldn&apos;t require customers to have an existing console, and conceivably you could still profitably sell the game at $50.&lt;p&gt;It wouldn&apos;t be very environmentally friendly (you&apos;re forcing players to buy a new console for every game) but it could make economic sense.&lt;p&gt;The devices are certainly small enough to stack behind your TV; you just need a decent KVM switch designed to work with these devices.</text></comment>
<story><title>Raspberry Pi $25 PC goes into alpha production</title><url>http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/raspberry-pi-25-pc-goes-into-alpha-production-20110728/?hy=2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wccrawford</author><text>&quot;The planend hardware included a 700MHz ARM11 processor, 128MB RAM, OpenGL ES 2.0, and 1080p output.&quot;&lt;p&gt;Is it just me, or does that sound like it might make a decent gaming machine, if you don&apos;t get too greedy about graphics?&lt;p&gt;If that&apos;s the case, the consoles are in trouble!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>politician</author><text>Graphics or simulation complexity -- I don&apos;t think it&apos;d run Dwarf Fortress very well, for example.</text></comment>