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The Raspberry Pi Foundation has upgraded its credit card-sized computer: it now sports 512MB of memory rather than 256MB, but still costs $35 (£22).

Foundation founder Eben Upton promised that anyone who has an outstanding order will receive the upgraded board.

“Units should start arriving in customers’ hands today, and we will be making a firmware upgrade available in the next couple of days to enable access to the additional memory,” he pledged.

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I wish it was easier to get one, far cooler than my various Arduino's
    
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Out of curiosity, is there any possible cons for having double ram in the Pi?
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Out of curiosity, is there any possible cons for having double ram in the Pi?

Perhaps increased latency? The benefit of doubled RAM should far outweigh that though.
    
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Out of curiosity, is there any possible cons for having double ram in the Pi?

None whatsoever.
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Out of curiosity, is there any possible cons for having double ram in the Pi?
It will probably weigh a few grams more.
     
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Great news but the wait is killin me... tongue.gif
 
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Well, it certainly is great news. Mine arrived months ago for the same price (if not more due to pre-ordering) and half the RAM rolleyes.gif
 
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post #9 of 68
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Out of curiosity, is there any possible cons for having double ram in the Pi?
It will probably weigh a few grams more.

If it is 2x256 modules that is.
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post #10 of 68
Should be enough memory for a basic Minecraft server now.
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