Raspberry Pi... ?16 a bargain...

[JaLacy93]

I managed to get onto the farnell site at about 6.01, added to basket then site went offline and not been able to get on since.

 

[the1 with da answers]

Too much hype on this, strictly for programming nerRAB.

 

[misslady233]

Quoted for posterity

 

[GfisAnying]

Which site do I register at? I can't get the raspberrypi sites to load

 

[Byakuya]

lol

Custom case for Raspberry Pi Model B *professional! Recycled!* | eBay

 

[TriniaB]

Register here to express an interest in Raspberry Pi

 

[shorty_2_us]

Yeah I suppose, but then if you can't google "install openoffice on " then you probably shouldn't be installing stuff anyway

As far as possibilities you are hindered by processing power vs regular pc but you gain smaller size, more easily powered and a price so low you could consider the device disposable (eg, send it up on a weather balloon). I'm considering a project with a robot arm which isn't practical with a pc. Conversely I can't use an rpi for playing games or connecting up loaRAB of sata drives.

 

[adie.]

Gah just got onto the farnell site then it went again!

 

[wwe diva Maria]

Well I want mine primarily because I'm attempting to learn Python and it would be handy to have a device I can muck around on. But yes I can see your point.

 

[Arun M]

Got an email from RS paraphrasing



Not clear whether first come first served is in order of 'registration' or order of 'order placed'.

I suspect the latter and the registration just gets you an email alert.

Cheers,

Nigel

 

[Ballin954]

Farnell are sold out...

 

[Serena Elizabeth G]

well I'm not sure there seems to be people on twitter saying they have bought one. I just managed to add one to my cart and registered gone now though

edit just seen the official announcement. May buy one now and hopefully get yb the end of the week.

 

[futureinfinance07]

It was raspberry themselves that tweeted that, also said we can preorder and they will be built to order

 

[J-ho]

Thats what i'd imagine to.

 

[Yahole]

Probably not that simple with the RasberryPi (unless it's already been compiled for it). You have to remeraber that the RP runs on the ARM architecture which is very different to your home pc that will be an x86. So you can't just download any linux software from the internet and expect it to work (as it will most likely be compiled for the x86 arch).

Until someone who knows what they are doing gets hold of the source code and specifically compiles it for the ARM architecture and makes it available to the masses.

 

[lj_hound]

Yeah just seen that see my edit. Oh well!

 

[danette!]

Spoke to Farnell's trade counter - Out of stock - Lots more in three weeks.

 

[Marie-Lise]

Linux Support for the ARM Architecture - ARM

 

[Plur]

It is that easy on arm. I did it earlier. No wonder Linux is seen as just a plaything for nerRAB with the misinformation going around

 

[< My Lilly Girl]

To be honest I'm not at all surprised that this happened. Just a little annoyed that they didnt just sell in 5 mins then I could've gone back to bed!