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I'm really excited for these things. Growing up (5-12yrs old), I had an old Commodore 64, hooked up to a small TV to play around with (so I wouldn't mess up something on the fancy 486 machine my dad used). The simplicity and lack of distractions (like flashy games) that machine had, made it easy for me to experiment and eventually learn how to program.

RasPi seems like that same 'old c64' experience I had, only better. I could give one of these things, with a keyboard and mouse to one of my younger relatives to play around with. They can tinker around with it all they want, without their parents worrying about them breaking something or loosing important files.