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[MangoCake]

I definitely did not get to them fast enough.

I checked the day of the "Big announcement" as they called it when they started taking orders, put in my info with Premier Farnell and RS Components to get a model B as soon as they were available, and the next day Premier Farnell got back to me to let me know I could order one.

So my order got through, and supposedly am supposed to get it sometime early April!

[glyfz]

The reason the first batch was 10K was because it was being paid by remortgaging their houses and that's all they could afford.

[bjoswald]

What's the point of these again? Bragging rights?

[MangoCake]

bjoswald, on 09 March 2012 - 19:37, said:

What's the point of these again? Bragging rights?

I'd like to think they are more than bragging rights and moreso just a sharing of a what people are going to use them for if they got their order in...

But I will admit it feels great saying I got my order through, and will be happy to toy and experiment with mine once it gets here; so I am sure with that, there are plenty of people who have a case of simple bragging and "Look what I got!"

[cybertimber2008]

bjoswald, on 09 March 2012 - 19:37, said:

What's the point of these again? Bragging rights?

Reading their website might help Cheap systems to teach (educate) kids on programming.

juresp, on 01 March 2012 - 15:10, said:

BTW, there is an alternative: http://opensource.co...eapest-15-cheap

Finally! Some alternatives in a similar price range. I'm very curious about the allwinner one. Now to see if I can get one.

[iron2000]

Maybe some bought it to reverse engineer it

[ybrett23]

Axel, on 01 March 2012 - 10:26, said:

Definitely want one of these for XBMC!



http://wiki.xbmc.org...le=Raspberry_Pi

now i like it !

[n_K]

Price went up from £21.60 to £32...
I wasn't able to order, only register interest, but I won't be ordering anymore.

[HawkMan]

n_K, on 14 March 2012 - 18:53, said:

Price went up from £21.60 to £32...
I wasn't able to order, only register interest, but I won't be ordering anymore.

I believe it was always 32 with VAT

[sanctified]

bjoswald, on 09 March 2012 - 19:37, said:

What's the point of these again? Bragging rights?

Kiosk machines, dedicated media boxes, art installations (I will use a couple for this), micro machines for light browsing and email reading (Think of the elderly), etc.

[XavierHyde]

My boss alerted me to the RasPi's existence and I'm very excited. I'm definitely starting by testing OpenELEC on mine once I get it, and if it works well I'm buying another one as soon as possible to build a NAS. At that price, I'll probably end up buying ten or so just to play around with or to make some useful little appliance from. It'll be very interesting to see how well MAME and other emulators perform on this, it'd make a great base component for an arcade cabinet.

[+Lingwo]

Everybody who was lucky enough to get an order in, should be getting their emails today telling them when they will be delivered. (UK)
The one i ordered will supposedly arrive on the week commencing 07/05/2012. Quite a big leap in expected dates though. My brother ordered one about 2 hours after me and his expected date is the 21/05/2012.

Still glad that i'll finally be able to get one.