[niallb]

Got mine this morning.
Ordered afternoon of the 3rd March.
Got the free teeshirt too :-)

[BopNiblets]

I have two on order, one from Farnell and one from RS and nothin' yet, I'm racing them!
I'll sell the 2nd one that arrives or give it to a friend as a present or something.

[d31b0y]

Generous, but when you actually get one I think you will want to keep the other too

I can't wait to be able to put a bulk order in.

[Stuxnet]

got mine today finally, 4 months later :-D
t shirt also

[BopNiblets]

Gentlefellas, would a microSD card in an adapter work ok in the Pi? I've seen some forum posts about image writing issues (Raspbmc hopefully).
I have a Sandisk 16GB (class 2) one in my SGSII and if I buy a 32GB one for the phone, I could use the other one in the Pi maybe.

[PrzemoF]

I just ordered mine RPi - delivery time ~10 weeks.

[BopNiblets]

Mine is in the country! I have no wifi or USB hub for it, completely unprepared, noooo!

RS won the race btw, Farnell just shipped theirs too.

Edit: I found a really tiny and cheap Wifi dongle if anyone is looking for one (eBay seller in Hong Kong)
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/170839608006

[pseudofax]

Thought about buying one, but you can get a Allwinner A10 tablet from China for about 50 euro, which includes a more powerful Cortex A8 processor, twice as much RAM and 4GB of storage, not to mention the Mali GPU which is being reverse engineered for open source drivers. Nearly all the drivers on the Pi are closed source, that is a deal breaker for me. I don't trust closed source drivers running in anything below ring 3.

This company is going to struggle with the influx of ARM and MIPS computers from China. An avalanch of these devices is going to seriously hamper their profits I think. I know the drivers are the sole reason for not buying one myself.

[Stuxnet]

Originally Posted by pseudofax

This company is going to struggle with the influx of ARM and MIPS computers from China. An avalanch of these devices is going to seriously hamper their profits I think..

the raspberry pi foundation that designed and have these made are a non-profit charity organisation

[EarthlyPangaea]

Originally Posted by pseudofax

Thought about buying one, but you can get a Allwinner A10 tablet from China for about 50 euro, which includes a more powerful Cortex A8 processor, twice as much RAM and 4GB of storage, not to mention the Mali GPU which is being reverse engineered for open source drivers. Nearly all the drivers on the Pi are closed source, that is a deal breaker for me. I don't trust closed source drivers running in anything below ring 3.

This company is going to struggle with the influx of ARM and MIPS computers from China. An avalanch of these devices is going to seriously hamper their profits I think. I know the drivers are the sole reason for not buying one myself.

They'd be more useful if you could run proper Linux distributions on them, rather than Android.

[BopNiblets]

Does the Pi have trouble with self powered USB drives?
I've tried two and neither are mounting in Raspbmc (a 500GB WD and a 1TB WD), yet a 1GB flash drive mounts.
In the other USB port I have a mini Unifying Logitech receiver for mouse an keyboard.

[pseudofax]

Originally Posted by EarthlyPangaea

They'd be more useful if you could run proper Linux distributions on them, rather than Android.

I would not have bought one if it didn't run a proper Linux distro, none of this Android crap. If you choose the right system, you can boot Linux from a microsd card without rooting or hacking anything.

[PrzemoF]

Originally Posted by pseudofax

Nearly all the drivers on the Pi are closed source, that is a deal breaker for me.

I never checked that, but I assumed that it's an education "PC", so they should be open... Hopefully it's just a matter of getting enough market saturation to get a reverse engineered version or make vendors release the specs...

[Khannie]

Originally Posted by BopNiblets

Does the Pi have trouble with self powered USB drives?
I've tried two and neither are mounting in Raspbmc (a 500GB WD and a 1TB WD), yet a 1GB flash drive mounts.
In the other USB port I have a mini Unifying Logitech receiver for mouse an keyboard.

Could be that your charger isn't feeding it enough juice for the external drive + pi. Flash drive would definitely use less power.

[BopNiblets]

I was also reading there is a bottleneck with the USB design of the RasPi :/
http://www.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi...efficient_usb/