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In the UK enquiries about the board have been received from schools in both the [[state school|state]] and [[independent school|independent]] sectors, with around five times as much interest from the latter (January 2012). It is hoped that businesses will sponsor purchases for less advantaged schools.<ref name="guardian reboot computing" />
Many potential customers have voiced concern over the relatively small amount of memory (256 MiB), which limits the usefulness for its intended purpose of teaching programming, due to the memory needs of modern compilers and interactive development environments.<ref>[http://www.raspberrypi.org/forum/general-discussion/design-choices-behind-the-rpi design choices behind the rpi affecting C++ and Python]</ref> Swapping is an unattractive option, due to the lack of a high-speed swap device. In the same thread, JamesH reported "it took ages" to build the Stellarium app in C/C++ (5 hours on an alpha board, compared to 10 minutes on an AMD Athlon PC with 2GiB). The memory is not user-upgradable, because it uses [[package on package]] memory rather than a memory socket. The Model B uses a Hynix H9TKNNN2GDMPLR memory chip, which however is factory upgradeable to the H9TKNNN4GDMPLR with 512 MiB (in sampling status).<ref> [http://www.hynix.com/products/mobile/mobile.jsp?info.ramCategory=&info.ramKind=28&info.eol=NOT&posMap=MobileDDR2 Hynix mobile ddr2]</ref> The difference in contract pricing between LPDDR 2 Gb and LPDDR 4 Gb is about $5.<ref>[http://www.dramexchange.com Mobile Dram Contract Price Q4'11]</ref>
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