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| Authored by: Ian Al on Thursday, December 20 2012 @ 02:29 AM EST |
My Raspi is set up with turbo boost and boosts up to 1GHz without the
temperature exceeding about 48°C. This is in a ModMyPi enclosure with restricted
cooling. Fan cooling seems unnecessary.
I use a combined wireless mouse and keyboard and so the IR device is of limited
value. Indeed, the line of sight requirement is a drawback. I had to make light
pipes to make the Raspi LEDs visible in its case.
The Rev. 2 board has an additional connector site, P5, for RTC and audio codec
connection under the RPi. There is a connector for an LCD, as well and this
would be a suitable (and very useful) alternative to the RGB LED.
Finally, using the Raspberry Pi as a desktop computer is fine. I prefer to use
it, instead of my regular desktop, for playing with Python and other programming
practice.
The browsers are quite slow. I do a lot of surfing with them, but they do not
display all web content. UTube and streaming video does not work, for instance.
Groklaw is just fine.
When it is just pictures, text and download, Dillo is lightening fast. It does
not support frames and other such modern webby stuff. Midori and the other
browsers are much slower, but more capable. Iceweasel is too slow to be
useable.
I do some documentation on the RPi. Abbyword is a good word processor, but
scrolling through documents is painfully slow and jerky. It saves in .odt, which
makes exchange of documents with LibreOffice in another desktop very doable.
As a desktop, the RPi is usable, but has limitations when browsing the web.
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Regards
Ian Al
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