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rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> writes:
> I'm going to get the better computer, but it costs $35.  The rPi
> 2... This thing is not much of a desktop.  I have a 10 year old
> machine that runs XP and does rings around the rPi.  

The Rpi is an embedded linux board that I hope is not being sold as a
desktop.  The Rpi2 has four cores each around 1.5x the speed of the
Rpi1, and I don't know if the parallelism will really help with web
browsing.  I can understand not wanting to lug a full sized laptop
around but there are some very nice, fast ultralights around these days.
I want one of these:

http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd.aspx

Ironically one of the easiest places to go look at one in person is the
Microsoft store.  But I'd buy the Linux version above.