On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 11:02:41AM -0700, Christopher Tooley wrote: > On 2012-03-26, at 10:08 AM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: > > >>>> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:38:31AM +0100, Gordan Bobic wrote: > >>>> http://www.redsleeve.org/ > >> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 09:18:19AM -0700, Christopher Tooley wrote: > >> http://www.raspberrypi.org/ > >> > > > > As I understand, the raspberry machine does not exist. As reported > > elsewhere, > > the first batch of production boards was assembled with a wrong part > > resulting in non-working ethernet. I did not see any reports of following > > production batches (fully working or not). > > > While no-one has yet received a pi, I doubt that it's vaporware ;) >
"no-one received", "online videos", "founders are demonstrating", "preorder now" and "available soon" is the definition of vaporware. One official vendor is: http://www.element14.com/community/groups/raspberry-pi read forum postings observe promised shipping dates in May-June. Bottom line is I cannot buy it, you cannot buy it. (For "buy" == it's in my hands. Not some promise to mail it to me later). K.O. > There are copious RPi videos online demoing xbmc among other things, and the > founders are routinely demonstrating pis running at various physical events > (recently the Beeb@30 event). > > > For those not familiar with this, it's an SBC built using a smart-phone ARM > > chipset. > > Yep! more information here: > http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs > > "The SoC is a Broadcom BCM2835. This contains an ARM1176JZFS, with floating > point, running at 700Mhz, and a Videocore 4 GPU. The GPU is capable of BluRay > quality playback, using H.264 at 40MBits/s. It has a fast 3D core accessed > using the supplied OpenGL ES2.0 and OpenVG libraries." > > It is supposed to cost about $25 - $35. > > I've pre-ordered one, but I doubt I will get one of the first batch. > Apparently the 10000 they built sold out handily. > > -Chris -- Konstantin Olchanski Data Acquisition Systems: The Bytes Must Flow! Email: olchansk-at-triumf-dot-ca Snail mail: 4004 Wesbrook Mall, TRIUMF, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 2A3, Canada
