Raspberri PI Release Announcement • Hacker News Board

Re: Raspberri PI Release Announcement

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Post by eupharis » Thu, Mar 01, 2012, 2:06 PM UTC

zvrba wrote: post #261

eupharis wrote: post #232

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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…

OK, living in Norway, prices are "somewhat" higher. On the website of a popular computer-shop (digitalimpuls.no), the cheapest screen I found was Iiyama LCD 24" for 1100 NOK =~ 200 USD. (All other screens, also smaller, were more expensive.)

Ah ok. That makes sense. As an American, I take it as my god-given right to jump to conclusions based on American conditions ;)

I also had the thought that at many American schools/libraraies I bet you could find a sympathetic IT guy to give ya some old parts that are on their way to the scrap yard. And I know of at least one computer non-profit recycler in my city that would hook kids up.

Point is, the peripherals of computers, including monitors to a certain extent, are abundant. Tiny, relatively fast computers capable of putting out 1080p are not.... Or I guess I should say weren't!

Re: Raspberri PI Release Announcement

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Post by ssmall » Thu, Mar 01, 2012, 3:00 PM UTC

alexchamberlain wrote: post #269

ssmall wrote: post #218

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With things like this I'd rather wait for the 2nd or 3rd run anyways. They are a small group who are doing this on a shoestring budget for a price point with a tiny profit margin and targeting a highly technical audience; I won't be shocked if there are some small hardware bugs that make it past QA in the first run. Its worth the waiting a little bit to let them iron all that out.

I was thinking about this, but given they've got an OS running, it is good enough for £20, and I'll replace it when necessary.

You can have an OS running and not have it 100% stable for long term with small latent bugs. I've actually got a prototype board I'm working on right now that runs Linux just fine but will lock up and need to be rebooted every few days.

But as you said, for 20 quid who cares?

Re: Raspberri PI Release Announcement

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Post by arghhh » Thu, Mar 01, 2012, 8:51 PM UTC

apl wrote: post #204

PKeeble wrote: post #170

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Or it could tarnish their reputation and kill the whole product. Lets hope the engineering of the actual product is a little better than the sales process. But I still think its kind of important not to give your potential customers a 404 as your first interaction or you run the very real risk of having zero conversions from all that homepage traffic.

> you run the very real risk of having zero conversions > from all that homepage traffic. Dear God. Don't use web-y start-up lingo in situations where none of the platitudes apply. R-PI faces demand severely outstripping demand, which is the polar opposite of what conversion rate-optimizing Bla-ly companies experience.

"Don't use web-y start-up lingo"

This is YC, right? I don't think that the word "conversion" is a platitude. It just has more syllables than the word "sale", and... ok, you're right.