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→Capabilities of the Raspberry Pi
It's important to know the capabilities and limitations of the Raspberry Pi:
* '''The Pi has 256 MB of memory.''' This is enough for most casual program use, such as word processing, spreadsheets, and browsing, but is not sufficient for heavy the simultaneous use of many several graphical user interface programs at the same time. It is plenty of memory for many web serving and control tasks, since these tasks don't require a graphical user interface.
* '''The processor on the Pi is a 700 MHz ARM processor.''' This is not really fast compared to a modern PC, but still offers plenty of power for many purposes. Since this is an ARM processor, it will not directly run Microsoft Windows.
* '''Storage is provided by SD cards''' (the same cards used in most digital cameras). These are inexpensive, have high capacity, and are durable (your students can accidentally leave them in their jean pockets and they'll still work after the laundry is done). Students can have multiple SD cards configured with different software and swap between them.