Raspberry Pi 3: Now a Legitimate Desktop Computer for $200!
Friday, April 15, 2016 at 12:14PM The latest hardware offering from the Raspberry Pi Foundation, the Raspberry Pi version 3 crosses a major threshold. This new device is now a real computer capable of running a real, modern desktop operating system. I immediately pre-ordered one when I saw the specs: 1.2 GHz quad-core ARM processor, 1 GB RAM, built-in 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.1, HDMI, 10/100 Ethernet and four USB ports.
When it arrived yesterday I tore my office and then a few other nooks apart looking for a Micro-SD card to burn a boot image onto. No luck. Unbelievable. I had to go the the Family Dollar store at 21:30 to buy the only card within 10 miles of my rural-suburban home at that time of day. Still, I got a couple SanDisk 8 GB cards for $10 each. It seems in today's world of portable electronics; Micro-SD cards are harder to hold onto than AA batteries. Armed with fresh media, I downloaded three or four operating systems of varying purpose and architecture.
