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Post by corin_ »

eupharis wrote: post #232
zvrba wrote: post #178

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So it's a minicomputer without the disk, keyboard, mouse, screen, and speakers, which quickly adds up to $250 with cheapest components if you want to use it as a general-purpose computer. At the same time, it runs linux and the same linux distro runs also in qemu, so you can do most of the develompent without actual hardware. So where's the rush, why does everybody have to get it right now?

No. $250 is ridiculous, even for buying everything new. I just spent 2 minutes googling: Amazon Class Class 10 8 GB SD Card: $9 Best Buy 20" LCD: $90 Keyboard: $15 Mouse: $7.54 Speakers: $10.54 Total: $132.08 If you go to your local thriftstore, you could get all of these for <$50. Not sure if you have ever been a poor kid or not, but take it from me, this computer WILL bring computing to kids who would not otherwise…

As a former middle class kid at rather pricey private schools... will bring computing to plenty of kids whose families could afford much more, too.

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Post by Someone »

DanBC wrote: post #93

BBC Radio Four's "Today" programme are talking about Raspberry PI right now. They haven't mentioned server problems yet, or the fact that it's sold out already. ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/default.stm ) (7:45am Wednesday 29th Feb)

It made it to television, too, fove minutes ago, in the BBC News.

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Post by skeletonjelly »

InclinedPlane wrote: post #226
MatthewPhillips wrote: post #216

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Not having Wifi kills this option for me personally.

Buy a WRT54gl, put dd-wrt on it, set it up as a client-bridge, now you can network your xbox, HTPC, PS3, etc. easily.

This is what I did to move the big blue ugly cable running across the entrance hallway. Wife loves the change :)

Granted, I'm playing content off the same box.

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Post by asb »

jacquesm wrote: post #230

I love it how people are pissing on this as though it is a failure. Really, unbelievable. Here is a group of dedicated guys and girls that work their asses off to produce a $25 computer with more punch than you'd ever think possible for that amount of money. Not only do they deliver, they are sold out in absolute record time with the sites simply collapsing under the load. I'd chalk this one up as a success, definite…

Not to forget: they all have day jobs. People have been worrying for ages about how Raspberry Pi will deal with the demand and get out of a process of making batches, having them sell out instantly and then using that capital to build the next batch. Eben talks about why the RS and Farnell partnership is a big deal and will help to solve that problem in this video interview:

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/02/28/2347222/raspberr...

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Post by X-Istence »

yardie wrote: post #157
X-Istence wrote: post #86

The electronics suppliers are not used to this kind of traffic. I remember Ti's website grounding to a halt when I was first in college when they released a new kit for free, and in the past when they have done coupons for half off certain high value items. Interesting side note, Ti for its free samples uses Digikey to process them (same address, same exact boxes, packaging and onetime when I ordered a free sample I…

That wasn't the case for my last order from TI. I ordered there EZ430 launchpad kits and according to the shipping label it came from a TI office in malaysia. I was originally going to go through Digikey but they wanted 5x ($20 instead of $4) the price.

You purchased them from TI. I was referring to their samples.

All the stuff I've purchased from TI has indeed been shipped directly from TI itself and not through Digikey.

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Post by jacquesm »

asb wrote: post #244
jacquesm wrote: post #230

I love it how people are pissing on this as though it is a failure. Really, unbelievable. Here is a group of dedicated guys and girls that work their asses off to produce a $25 computer with more punch than you'd ever think possible for that amount of money. Not only do they deliver, they are sold out in absolute record time with the sites simply collapsing under the load. I'd chalk this one up as a success, definite…

Not to forget: they all have day jobs. People have been worrying for ages about how Raspberry Pi will deal with the demand and get out of a process of making batches, having them sell out instantly and then using that capital to build the next batch. Eben talks about why the RS and Farnell partnership is a big deal and will help to solve that problem in this video interview: http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/02/2…

Indeed. Just to put into perspective what a huge event this launch was: for a short while (about 10 minutes) the RasberryPi outsold the iPhone 4:1.

Of course, Apple moves 250 iphones per minute all the time but there was absolutely no way that a small outfit like this could have anticipated and/or met this insane surge of demand. I sure hope it validates the concept to everybody that was still doubting and I hope that we'll soon be able to mark the 100K, 1M and up milestones of units sold.

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Post by ryan-c »

mrpippy wrote: post #116

Everyone in the US: The Raspberry Pi is now listed on Newark/element14 (Farnell's US site): http://www.newark.com/raspberry-pi/raspbrry-pcba/dp/83T1943 It's $35, although there's also a 30 day lead time and a $20 handling fee (because it's shipping directly from the UK).

I placed an order this morning and just got an email with an expected ship date of May 20th.

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Post by jacquesm »

PKeeble wrote: post #188
fmstephe wrote: post #183

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I agree with everything you have said about the potential of the Raspberry Pi. My surprise was at the tone of the reaction on this thread. That these people have spent this long on such a worthy project and have produced something that is probably truly exceptional. We should be grateful and excited. I don't think it has been let down at all. We will all get one, just maybe not immediately.

Right now no one knows when the release will be. What we have here is a limited beta release to 10,000 people or so, not the actual product launch. That will be coming at an unknown point in the future, probably. People are frustrated by this realisation because the makers claimed it would be the real release. But I think its been obvious for at least 2 months that it would exactly what it is today (no one expected t…

Really, you're totally misreading this.

They got the product right and there was absolutely no way in hell that they could have done better than this at launch day. If they had sold 10 units I'm sure you would have had your criticism ready as well and to extrapolate from selling out in 10 minutes flat to 'fear that the hardware shows the same lack of attention and it doesn't work very well' is simply stupid.

If you want to criticize the RasberryPi folks then I suggest you show us all how you will do better. I'll be cheering you on, even if you sell out on day one.

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Post by StavrosK »

cperciva wrote: post #200
StavrosK wrote: post #199

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Hmm, apparently they don't have branches in NYC or LA/SF, which are the places I'm going... Thanks for the help, though!

Why do you care where they have branches? I've never been to one.

Hmm, how can you open an account without going to a branch? Don't you have to sign forms, etc?
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