I am quite sure that many of us have heard about Raspberry Pi, the tiny single board computer module that has made it possible to come up with some zany computing solutions. Since imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, here we are with the Banana Pi, a $57 clone of the Raspberry Pi. The Banana Pi sports a 1GHz Allwinner A20 dual-core ARM Cortex-A7 processor, while sporting double the amount of the Raspberry Pi’s RAM at 1GB.
Other hardware specifications of the Banana Pi include an SD memory card slot, HDMI and composite video jacks, a 3.5mm audio jack and a built-in microphone, Gigabit Ethernet, a couple of USB 2.0 ports, a micro USB port for power, an IR receiver, and even Raspberry Pi compatible headers such as a 26-pin header and camera connector among others.
To put it in perspective, it ought to be simple enough to use majority of Raspberry Pi-compatible hardware with a Banana Pi, and considering how the Banana Pi is more powerful than its fruity counterpart, it would be useful in the construction of a home theater PC or even a general purpose computer. What do you think of the Banana Pi so far? Personally, it might not end up being as successful as the Raspberry Pi due to the latter’s authenticity status.
Banana Pi Is A $57 Raspberry Pi Clone , original content from Ubergizmo, Filed in Computers, raspberry pi,
As a former user of the Atari 800XL, I find the Commodore line to be piffle at best but I’ll become a bit more catholic in my support of decades-old hardware and tell you a bit about the Commodore Pi, a wacky emulator that turns your Raspberry Pi into a real, multi-tasking Commodore. 
Much has been talked about concerning the highly affordable Raspberry Pi, and here we are with the 
I remember when Quake III was first released, and back then 17” monitors were the norm, and playing it on a 19” monitor blew my mind away with the Riva TNT2 GPU, as I zipped through The Longest Yard at high resolution without missing a beat. It is then pretty difficult to believe how far computing power has come these days, with an example of Quake III running on a Raspberry Pi spotted in real life – and to think that the Raspberry Pi costs a pittance in comparison to a whole desktop back at the turn of the millenium.
The 
