Raspberry pi

Tydmors

Tydmors

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Hi everyone,

I was wondering if i could pick you brains for a while.

Do any of you have any experience working with a Raspberry pi?

We are looking at getting a couple to use in place of entry level office pc's where people will do basic document manipulation and browse the web.

According to a sales rep i spoke to, it would be good enough for the tasks.

We are looking at the B+ model.

I would appreciate any feedback.
 
Im using one to make my Old Samsung TV "Smart" and it works really well. I couldn't believe how tiny it is... I'm sure it will meet the requirements you mention above. My one piece of advice tho, buy a case... I didn't expect it to come as a little "board" with no housing...
 
That should be fine, if the people who use them are patient. The word processor might put some strain on it and it will process a little slower.

I used to hook one up to my TV, but it gets angry when you throw a lot of HD video decoding at it. Now I'm looking for something awesome that I can do with my Pi.
 
TheAvenged87 said:
That should be fine, if the people who use them are patient. The word processor might put some strain on it and it will process a little slower.

I used to hook one up to my TV, but it gets angry when you throw a lot of HD video decoding at it. Now I'm looking for something awesome that I can do with my Pi.
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How about a little "home automation" "whistling:

http://www.qwikswitch.co.za/
 
We're contemplating using some Pi's (and that apostrophe is there for a reason, else it's just urine spelled wrong) for work purposes in asset tracking... Can't share too much at the moment as the idea is still being patented by our client. :D
 
Thanks for all the great responses.

Tom, Unfortunately the place i'm looking at said they will only get casings for the model B+Pi's mid November and they don't have stock of the A or B Models. So will check for another place that might have stock of the casings.

I'm just worried that it would be a waste of time/money to try and use it as a small office pc.
 
Tydmors said:
I'm just worried that it would be a waste of time/money to try and use it as a small office pc.
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Look to be honest, for the price you not going to get better... What it will ultimately come down to in my opinion, is the OS... Will you be happy using the native RASPBIAN? Coz im not sure how well it would handle windows... the Linux OS is a much better fit...
 
I have a Pi, B Model, and I would not use it for much other than experimenting....

I have RaspBMC set up on it, and it's plugged into the back of my bedroom's TV. It's slow, movies seem sluggish, and I cannot forward or rewind (over gigabit network). I control it with Yatze, which sounds like it could be nice controlling a device with your phone, but it's a "las". You have to unlock your phone, get into the app, etc. A remote is so much easier.

I have also used other flavors, like Raspbian and OpenElec, with similar results.

The B+ model may be better with it's 512 RAM (mine has 256), but still, I would NEVER use it as a day to day PC...

But I would say get one and test it... It may work for you.
 
We bought about 25 and use several as replacement thin clients here in our lab...while useful, they are DAMN fragile and I swear not a week goes by without either a unit or the SD card being faulty and needing replacement...we're down to having 4 spares left. Maybe its just our bad luck coz we know (although supplier denies entirely) we got a seriously bad batch of SD cards, about a 10% fail rate :/

I must admit though, it is the "older" model that only has 2 USB ports.
 
I'm thinking about getting one to use as an automated download box. I'm just not sure if it can deliver enough power through one USB port to keep an external harddrive running..
 
TBlaar said:
I have a Pi, B Model, and I would not use it for much other than experimenting....

I have RaspBMC set up on it, and it's plugged into the back of my bedroom's TV. It's slow, movies seem sluggish, and I cannot forward or rewind (over gigabit network). I control it with Yatze, which sounds like it could be nice controlling a device with your phone, but it's a "las". You have to unlock your phone, get into the app, etc. A remote is so much easier.

I have also used other flavors, like Raspbian and OpenElec, with similar results.

The B+ model may be better with it's 512 RAM (mine has 256), but still, I would NEVER use it as a day to day PC...

But I would say get one and test it... It may work for you.
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I tried one out too, as long as content is not 10bit and has a average bitrate of less than 5Mb/s then it should be okay... I tried to watch 1080p video that was 10 bit encoded and had about 20-55 mb/s bitrate but the Pi dropped frames like an ugly baby. It has it's uses but the hardware is just too weak to be a proper media player.
 
Ser_Bunnylot said:
I'm thinking about getting one to use as an automated download box. I'm just not sure if it can deliver enough power through one USB port to keep an external harddrive running..
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Plug your USB external drive into a powered USB hub - mine downloads torrents and nzb's without issues ...
 
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