Raspberry pi

it's very hard to summarize the raspberry pi into one word, maybe i can do it in two. Brilliantly small! that's right i'm calling brilliantly small, if you've ever seen the raspberry pi well it's a small spec computer than only 5 years ago would have been considered as monumentle. It's literally the size of a credit card, with all the components that you'd be expected to find in a computer.
It's being powered by a 700mhz single core processor with 256mb of ram and with a small helping from the GPU. The GPU is capable of outputting up to 1080p, no upscalling done on the software, it's all native 1080p support. as well of running 1080p footage, you can also display 2D and 3D animations, objects. with all this power you're thinking that running at 1080p, there's got to be some lag when it comes to the frame rate well no, raspberry pi foundation have guarneteed, it's got a solid 30 frames per second throughout the entire operating system.
Model A and Model B are exactly a like except model B has some features that make it to die for. Model B has 2 USB 2.0 ports and an Ethernet Port where as model A has only 1 USB 2.0 port and no Ethernet port. Model B being being more optimized for the end user as they could easily plug a keyboard and mouse into the USB ports and you're off.
So what's going to be powering the device well that you would be off your standard phone charger micro USB. with all the standardizing that the raspberry pi foundation has done with this device, you're able to get the most standard audio jack ever the 3.5mm headphone jack. 
I've mentioned the key components like the display port, the USB ports and the Ethernet port, I've missed out the hard drive well raspberry pi has no hard drive, it runs off a SD card and on that SD card is the operating system and the operating system is Linux. Linux OS is going to be the main operating system that's going to be running from straight from the SD card.

I know several people that are just buying a raspberry pi on the basis of building a arcade machine from scratch and just basically running an emulator on it and having custom controls.  With me i have other ideas, one of my ideas is to turn it into an iPod dock with HUD display that you can interact in your car and have it as an in car speaker speaker. i'd like to make a casing for the device and build a custom iPod dock around it with it easily being placed into car so maybe i could bring it to market. that's just one of my ideas that i want to do with it but since the iPhone dock is basic, i just want to tinker around with the electronics and get some experience in that field.