Raspberry Pi 2 model B review : The revolutionary $35 micro-PC, supercharged

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Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean.

A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia. It is a paradisematic country, in which roasted parts of sentences fly into your mouth.

The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he looked. “What’s happened to me? ” he thought. It wasn’t a dream.

One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections.

Interface

A collection of hardware part samples

A collection of hardware part samples

A collection of textile samples lay spread out on the table – Samsa was a travelling salesman – and above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame. It showed a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm towards the viewer.

His room, a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully between its four familiar walls.

Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. Drops of rain could be heard hitting the pane, which made him feel quite sad.

Hardware

“How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense”, he thought, but that was something he was unable to do because he was used to sleeping on his right, and in his present state couldn’t get into that position. However hard he threw himself onto his right, he always rolled back to where he was.

Software

He must have tried it a hundred times, shut his eyes so that he wouldn’t have to look at the floundering legs, and only stopped when he began to feel a mild, dull pain there that he had never felt before. “Oh, God”, he thought, “what a strenuous career it is that I’ve chosen! Travelling day in and day out.

When she reached the first hills of the Italic Mountains, she had a last view back on the skyline of her hometown Bookmarksgrove, the headline of Alphabet Village and the subline of her own road, the Line Lane. Pityful a rethoric question ran over her cheek.

The Big Oxmox advised her not to do so, because there were thousands of bad Commas, wild Question Marks and devious Semikoli, but the Little Blind Text didn’t listen. She packed her seven versalia, put her initial into the belt and made herself on the way.

 

Performance

Doing business like this takes much more effort than doing your own business at home, and on top of that there’s the curse of travelling, worries about making train connections, bad and irregular food, contact with different people all the time so that you can never get to know anyone or become friendly with them. It can all go to Hell! ” He felt a slight itch.

The Big Oxmox advised her not to do so, because there were thousands of bad Commas, wild Question Marks and devious Semikoli, but the Little Blind Text didn’t listen. She packed her seven versalia, put her initial into the belt and made herself on the way.

Specs

PC Geekbox MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2014) Toshiba Satellite P50t-BST2N01 MacBook (13-inch, 2014)
Price as reviewed $1,999/£1,599/AU$2,499 $1,799/£1,199/AU$2,499 $999/£849/AU$1,199
Display size/resolution 15.6-inch, 2,880 x 1,800 screen 15.6-inch, 3,840 x 2160 touchscreen 13.3-inch 1,440 x 900 screen
PC CPU 2.2GHz Intel Core i7 4770HQ 2.4GHz Intel Core i7-4700HQ 1.4GHz Intel Core i5 4260U
PC Memory 16GB DDR3 SDRAM 1600MHz 16GB DDR3 SDRAM 1600MHz 4GB 1,600MHZ DDR3 SDRAM
Graphics 1536MB (shared) Intel Iris Pro 2GB (dedicated) AMD Radeon R9 M265X 1536MB (shared) Intel HD Graphics 5000
Storage 256GB SSD 1TB 5,400rpm Hybrid HDD 128GB SSD
Optical drive None DVD/RW None
Networking 802.11ac wireless, Bluetooth 4.0 802.11ac wireless, Bluetooth 4.0 802.11a/c wireless, Bluetooth 4.0
Operating system OSX 10.9.4 Mavericks Windows 8.1 (64-bit) OSX 10.9.3 Mavericks

 

The Review

Raspberry Pi 2 model B

7 Score

"The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he looked. "What's happened to me? " he thought. It wasn't a dream."

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$35

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The Good

  • Fast boot-up
  • Pumped-up power
  • Windows 10 compatibility

The Bad

  • Far far away
  • Weak speakers
  • Annoying keyboard

Breakdown

  • Design 50%
  • User Interface 70%
  • User Expericence 70%
  • Performance 90%
  • Multi-Tasking 70%
Nyoman Jenny

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Nyoman Jenny

Nyoman Jenny is Jmagz’s Senior Editor. Nyoman has been writing professionally for over 10 years. From 2005-2015, she covered the advertising and marketing industry for Majalah Dewasa.

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