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On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 11:16:03PM -0000, Brian Watson wrote:

> The £16 gets you JUST a motherboard and the bare essential chips.

Those "bare essentials" include everything you need for a minimal modern
computer.  I'll be going for the slightly more expensive version with
ethernet built-in though.

> Users will need to add a keyboard or some other input device, a monitor 
> (although a tv can be used as one), and an operating system.

We all have keyboards and monitors, and once it's set up and on the
network you don't need them.

> Even the In/Out pins may require soldering in place, either vertically or 
> horizontally. For some reason (teaching basic soldering?) this is seen as a 
> Good Thing that adds versatility.

Most people won't use them anyway, as USB and ethernet provide all the
I/O most people need.  Including experimenters, who can use USB adapters
for serial, CANBUS, etc.

-- 
David Cantrell | Enforcer, South London Linguistic Massive

  The test of the goodness of a thing is its fitness for use.  If it
  fails on this first test, no amount of ornamentation or finish will
  make it any better, it will only make it more expensive and foolish.
     -- Frank Pick, lecture to the Design and Industries Assoc, 1916

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