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Posted by Eben Upton
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2nd Feb 2015 at 9.00 am

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Raspberry Pi 2 on sale now at $35

Let's get the good stuff out of the way above the fold. Raspberry Pi 2 is now on sale for $35 (the same price as the existing Model B+), featuring:

• A 900MHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 CPU (~6x performance)
• 1GB LPDDR2 SDRAM (2x memory)
• Complete compatibility with Raspberry Pi 1

Because it has an ARMv7 processor, it can run the full range of ARM GNU/Linux distributions, including Snappy Ubuntu Core, as well as Microsoft Windows 10.
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So that is pretty interesting. Mostly the fact that this is totally compatible with the previous Raspberry Pi. But did you read the specs properly? QUAD core. 1GB. Twice the RAM and 4x the cpu cores, plus it is faster and a newer generation (6x faster overall). I'm hoping cores can be shut down to limit power consumption, although the Model A+ will continue to be manufactured (and that's the real low power solution there).

François
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