HazardsMind:
Im deciding whether or not I should get a raspberry Pi mainly for the curiosity of this link, http://www.skpang.co.uk/blog/archives/541
Does the raspberry automatically start up like a computer or does it take some clever programming to get it to look like that.
Kind of yes, Kind of No. It does boot to an OS image put on an SD card, but it doesn't POST and doesn't have a BIOS menu you can play around with; nothing really clever, unless you want to go out and do something crazy with it. It's certainly a nifty little device.