The new Raspberry Pi 2, now with Windows 10 support

yes it can. You can use any phone charger or USB portable charger to run an RPi. The new RPi can also now run an external USB hard drive.

The power pack I'm using now is rated at 2 A. I bought it at Adafruit. It was made with the Pi in mind. You can run into issues if your charger/power pack is only good for the normal 500 ma a USB port puts out. You need power to run any USB dongle you have plugged into the Pi's USB ports, plus what the Pi needs. WIFI dongles can be a little power hungry. The touch screen I have coming is USB powered also. It can be powered through another source though, which I am going to do.

I don't think there's still a power pack or USB charger under 1A these days anyway. You'll find mostly 2A. Good points.

Wynona said:

alphanumeric said:

I have a B+ and will be buying one of these as well. I was reading an article on it on the Hackaday site. I was happy to see that this new version should be able to run Android, the B+ I have won't. This is even better news though. I'm guessing this is a port of Windows RT?

Alpha, I read somewhere that Windows RT is being retired? phased out? I just can't remember where I saw that.

Here You go.
Windows RT Becomes the New Vista: Microsoft Kills Last Nokia Tablet Running It

Wynona said:

alphanumeric said:

I have a B+ and will be buying one of these as well. I was reading an article on it on the Hackaday site. I was happy to see that this new version should be able to run Android, the B+ I have won't. This is even better news though. I'm guessing this is a port of Windows RT?

Alpha, I read somewhere that Windows RT is being retired? phased out? I just can't remember where I saw that.

No surprise there. RT can't do much. It's like buying an android tablet. You only get to use it with apps. I would rather get an android. :) But I stopped using Android now. I only use my old HTC One X android phone to control my Raspbberry Pi. :)

The Pi has an ARM processor so you won't be able to use x86 desktop programs. It will be like Windows RT or Windows Phone. It won't be your full blown Windows 10. Microsoft may retire the "Windows RT" name but I think the concept is going to live on, on other devices.

alphanumeric said:

The Pi has an ARM processor so you won't be able to use x86 desktop programs. It will be like Windows RT or Windows Phone. It won't be your full blown Windows 10. Microsoft may retire the "Windows RT" name but I think the concept is going to live on, on other devices.

Yeah, I am aware of that. RT will now belong to a long abandonware list that will be recycled for the Pi. The Raspbian Wheezy OS is actually a full working OS by itself. So I may stick with it.

badrobot said:

alphanumeric said:

The Pi has an ARM processor so you won't be able to use x86 desktop programs. It will be like Windows RT or Windows Phone. It won't be your full blown Windows 10. Microsoft may retire the "Windows RT" name but I think the concept is going to live on, on other devices.

Yeah, I am aware of that. RT will now belong to a long abandonware list that will be recycled for the Pi. The Raspbian Wheezy OS is actually a full working OS by itself. So I may stick with it.

Yeah, I know that you know. :) My comment was meant more as a general comment for others reading this thread that may not know what a raspberry Pi actually is or does.