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The Raspberry Pi is pretty neat but good luck using it as a general purpose HTML5-display box. Way too slow for that.

I agree that the cost of Chrome devices needs to be lower, but they need to be priced closer to midrange Android tablets (~250-300$) than Raspberry Pis.

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Yes, I think aiming for RPi equivalence would be extreme!

That said, it would be curious to see what kind of processor ends up being optimal for HTML5 content. It's not completely inconceivable that architectures will end up being tuned for JS execution.

It does have an h264 chip which might make HTML5 video usable.

RPi is good for video, but I think he meant overall browsing performance. RPi will be pretty slow at that.

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