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Re: Raspberri PI Release Announcement

#11

And after they spent the past couple of weeks cockily batting away concerns about how they'd handle the traffic load, too. "You're all talking like we don't know what we're doing" is the line I recall being used several times.

They did seem to know what they were doing. They put up a temporary static site to handle the traffic.

However, their suppliers, who are apparently fairly large companies, haven't been able to handle it. They said they warned them that the traffic would be enormous.

Re: Raspberri PI Release Announcement

#12

And after they spent the past couple of weeks cockily batting away concerns about how they'd handle the traffic load, too. "You're all talking like we don't know what we're doing" is the line I recall being used several times.

They don't. They really don't know what a slashdotting is. Well, the suppliers I mean.

Re: Raspberri PI Release Announcement

#14

Anyone have a link to the product pages for either of the suppliers? I can only find an "interest in" page.

These are supposedly the links, though both sites are down. The third was just an "express an interest" page, as the supplier didn't yet have the appropriate page up.

http://export.farnell.com/raspberry-pi/raspbrry-pcba/sbc-ras...

http://uk.farnell.com/jsp/bespoke/bespoke7.jsp?ICID=I-RASP-H...

http://uk.rs-online.com/web/generalDisplay.html

Re: Raspberri PI Release Announcement

#15

Anyone have a link to the product pages for either of the suppliers? I can only find an "interest in" page.

I believe this is the one for farnell (there were two search results, this is the one which loaded): http://uk.farnell.com/raspberry-pi/raspbrry-pcba/sbc-raspber...

however It seems to be a 'coming soon' product.

Re: Raspberri PI Release Announcement

#16
> The $25 Model A has been reworked to include 256MB of RAM – double what we were originally planning to offer

So the extra $10 will only buy you an ethernet and spare USB port now; makes the $35 a harder sell (but not tonight, of course).

Re: Raspberri PI Release Announcement

#18
The production partnerships are encouraging news. Here's hoping my predictions on the Pi being more of a boutique/hobby venture that couldn't meet demand are wrong. I never thought they had much of a chance 10k at a time with weeks in between runs.

Of course, their servers (at the suppliers) seem to be meeting their little digital Gods at the moment. They just went static at the org.

Re: Raspberri PI Release Announcement

#19
post #8

> We are no longer limited to batches of only 10k Raspberry Pis; the Raspberry Pi will now be being built to match demand. To me this is the key point. No need to fight through the rush tonight, there will enough to go around.

If I'm reading it right, tonight will be the first batch of 10k, the 'later in 2012' release that we will be able to pre-order for will be from their licensed partners and not so limited in quantity.

I could be wrong, I can't seem to access any website claiming to sell it.

Re: Raspberri PI Release Announcement

#20
They've used a classic software engineering technique to solve a manufacturing problem — just add an additional abstraction layer. I'm thrilled they'll have more capacity but also a little sad I can't pick a few up at the Jameco will-call desk tomorrow.
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