Ultra-Minis Conquer Constraints of Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi, the $35 credit card–size computer, exemplifies the “smaller is better” school of computing. An ARM11 processor (Broadcom’s BCM2835), GPU, 256MB of RAM, and an SD card reader for storage are on board, as are video, USB, and LAN ports. Hobbyists, do-it-yourselfers, and customizers love Raspberry Pi.

But resellers see a major problem: no Windows. Raspberry Pi runs various Linux distributions and has been adopted as a low-cost computing option in the education market. But...