> Bummer. Guess I will have to use the Pi for Open Kinect projects. Shame about that. > > The Raspi has OpenGL ES 2.0 and can over clock to 1Ghz. If Mr Belmont suggests > Mame4All...well there is not much hope.
RasPi is a terrific Arduino killer and it should do very very well for general hardware hacks like Kinect experiments. It's not well suited for running general desktop PC type tasks - if you want to do those on a fanless ARM system, the PandaBoard is a much better choice.