Raspberry Pi 2 is also easy to use. Installing an OS onto a microSD card is ridiculously easy thanks to the customised New Out Of The Box (NOOBS) installer you can download from raspberrypi.org.

Those upgrades, the Raspberry Pi Foundation says, make the Pi 2 Model B a much more powerful computer -- not just a good computer for its $35 price.

Simply plug the Raspberry Pi 2 into an electrical socket with the provided AC plug and it'll boot up. A window will appear with a list of different operating systems you can install.

The new Raspberry Pi 2 Model B has at its heart a quad-core ARMv7 processor that is said to be six times more powerful than the old Model B+ version.

The Raspberry Pi 2 Model B is the same size and the same price as its predecessor, but major hardware improvements make this mini computer much more delectable overall.

We give our first impressions of the $35 Raspberry Pi, an intriguing, eminently affordable hobbyist computer.

The Raspberry Pi 2 Model B is the same size and the same price as its predecessor, but major hardware improvements make this mini computer much more delectable overall.

The Raspberry Pi 2 Model B is the same size and the same price as its predecessor, but major hardware improvements make this mini computer much more delectable overall.

The Raspberry Pi 2 Model B is the same size and the same price as its predecessor, but major hardware improvements make this mini computer much more delectable overall.