Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced that it managed to sell a total of 5 million Raspberry Pi unit, with 500.000 of Raspberry Pi 2 in just three weeks, making it the best selling British computer.

While Sinclair's ZX Spectrum held that title, Raspberry Pi has now become the best selling British computer with over 5 million sold units. What is more impressive is that it managed to sell over 500,000 units of the new Raspberry Pi 2 in just three weeks.

The original Raspberry Pi went through three versions and selling around 4 million units by the end of last year and with the launch of the new Raspberry Pi 2, based on a quad-core Broadcom BCM2836 SoC with four 32-bit ARMv7 Cortex-A7 cores clocked at 900MHz and 1GB of RAM, which made it six times more powerful than the predecessor, certainly pushed it to a whole new level.

The idea of a cheap but yet usable small computer certainly flipped the right switches in the enthusiast market and Raspberry Pi is definitely on a good path.



Source: ZDNet.com.