Would like to have a Raspberry Pi experience the before you buy one of the boards?
What you need is a virtual machine.
A virual machine is a software package that can emulate the Raspberry Pi within a virtual environment - complete with user interface, applications and tools.
It doesn't matter whether you own a Windows, Apple or Linux machine, they can all run a virtual machine environment.
QEMU software is such virtual machine solution, which can emulate the ARM chip that powers the Raspberry Pi board.
If you are using a Windows PC the simplest and fastest way to get up and running is with a way is to obtain a zip containing everything you need.
Step 1
Download this zip file, which includes the 2012-07-15 Raspberry Pi operating system image based on a Debian Wheezy Raspbian build.
Step 2
Unzip the downloaded zip file.
Step 3
Follow the instructions in the 'README.txt' file in the 'qemu' folder.
As far as I know nobody has produced an equally simple process for emulating a Raspberry Pi with QEMU on Linux or Mac OS X.
However, here are a couple of websites that provide some instructions:
MacOS
QEMU RPi on GitHub
Unbuntu
Steps for RPi emulation
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