Waterproof, credit card sized computer laughs at the Raspberry Pi

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The price for all this luxurious state of the art tech starts at around $300, which makes it affordable, but not really Raspberry Pi cheap by any stretch.

The Raspberry Pi laughs at a product touting marginal superiority at 12x the price.

At $300 this is a tough price point, for $50 more I could get a fully functional laptop, sort of this system with a hard disk, monitor, keyboard and CD-ROM.

On the other hand, for $300 I could get 8 Raspberry Pi B's.

So while it's cool and all, not sure how it well sell at that price.

Yes I felt the same way once I read the price. For $300 dlls you can basically buy this: http://bit.ly/1fFIAlI

Honestly just for the added form factory and the water proof feature I would buy the laptop.

I think the biggest feature of the Raspberry pi is that it is cheap enough that you can give it away to show your software. Additionally you can scale your apps horizontally and basically create a grid without going bankrupt.

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