"Because it has an ARMv7 processor, it can run the full range of ARM GNU/Linux distributions, including Snappy Ubuntu Core..."
I haven't pay much attention to raspberry-pi before. It comes with an HDMI port, is it?
How fast would it be to play movies from localnetwork, or play youtube videos?
From the Official announcement, I saw " NEON-enabled multicore video codecs can be over 20x faster", so would this 20x faster be fast enough for playing youtube from a browser?