Laptop

[alsyma]

Hello! will the Raspberry PI B+ work directly off a laptop

[Laurens-wuyts]

You can do it by using an Ethernet cable.
http://pihw.wordpress.com/guides/direct ... onnection/

Laurens

[DirkS]

In the past I have powered Pis off a notebook's USB port (no devices plugged into the Pi) and used direct ethernet connection to log in from the notebook to the Pi (using SSH).
So it can work, but YMMV

[DougieLawson]

What do you mean?

You CAN NOT plug the HDMI output from a Raspberry Pi into the HDMI output from your laptop.
You CAN (as long as the power budget is low) run a Raspberry Pi from a USB socket (power only not data).
You CAN connect a Raspberry Pi ethernet directly to a laptop ethernet without needing a cross over cable for a point to point link.
You CAN run PuTTY on a laptop and connect to your Raspberry Pi with an ssh session.
You CAN run tightvnc server on your Raspberry Pi and a VNC client on your laptop.

You won't get far with NOOBS without a TV and a mouse (minimum requirement) to click icons and buttons on the installation menu (it is possible to do it without, but that's not easy for a new user).