Raspberry Pi - $35 Linux computer

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When did you guys register? I registered on the morning it was announced at about 8am, but haven't got the "1st batch" email from RS. :(
 
Can someone tell me where I should order NOW please with an aim to getting one asap? I know there have been delays etc and I am likely to wait untill June or whatever. Just tell me where to order so I can get it in atleast. Much appreciated guys ta. :)
 
jaybee said:
Can someone tell me where I should order NOW please with an aim to getting one asap? I know there have been delays etc and I am likely to wait untill June or whatever. Just tell me where to order so I can get it in atleast. Much appreciated guys ta. :)
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I don't think you can order now. I think it is a case of registering your interest with either element14.com or RS and wait for the email they send you that allows you to order one.
 
daz said:
When did you guys register? I registered on the morning it was announced at about 8am, but haven't got the "1st batch" email from RS. :(
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The Registration page was up at 6am. I registered about 5 past after hitting refresh about a million times!!!

You would have been way to late registering at 8 mate
 
Well I registered at about 2 minutes past 6 and I've just received that "we've had extraordinary levels of demand" email again so it looks like they are picking names out of a hat.
 
WILD9 said:
Well I registered at about 2 minutes past 6 and I've just received that "we've had extraordinary levels of demand" email again so it looks like they are picking names out of a hat.
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Did you fill in Company?
 
I just registed on the farnell one lol. Bit late, but I only caught wind of the PI this week. I had been avoiding the threads for weeks because I thought it was hype about some tablet device. Doh! I did put my company name in though in a hope that it might influence whether they deem me to be important. I'm sure it won't.
 
Zaf said:
Did you fill in Company?
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I did fill it in but with something like NA

I can't believe they would only sell them to companies, this batch is supposed to be for developers and I can't believe a lot of the type of developers this needs are registered companies
 
Zaf said:
Still no email from RS it's been over 7 days now :mad:
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I have had 2 advising me that their is a massive backlog and that they will get me mine as soon as they can, but they have yet to announce a delivery date of any sort, so Im guessing that it will be a while..
 
WILD9 said:
I did fill it in but with something like NA

I can't believe they would only sell them to companies, this batch is supposed to be for developers and I can't believe a lot of the type of developers this needs are registered companies
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It's first come first serve. Some people filled in the form as soon as it went up despite RPi tweets saying its the *WRONG* page.

For the company field, for those that remember the early version, it was a mandatory field (oversight on RS, and later the field became optional)

FYI I filled it in because I had no choice and I completed "Private Buyer"
 
inSilica said:
It's first come first serve. Some people filled in the form as soon as it went up despite RPi tweets saying its the *WRONG* page.

For the company field, for those that remember the early version, it was a mandatory field (oversight on RS, and later the field became optional)

FYI I filled it in because I had no choice and I completed "Private Buyer"
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They clearly took my pre-order at a couple of minutes past 6 whatever happened though as I am now getting pre-order mails from them.
 
lemonade said:
Looks like they are gearing up for the orders with the site under maintenance. Ordering is imminent :cool:
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RS are moving internal servers over the weekend, thats why the sites down for maintenance, been posted on a few forums.
Ordering shouldnt be long after though for those very lucky few. (me not being one of them, late may/june delivery for me).
 
Is there anywhere that sells small touch-screens, like a tablet? I was thinking it may be possible to hook the pi up to something like that, and have a cheap but decent linux/ICS tablet.
 
Farnell have many different screens available but you'll struggle to find one which can be run off HDMI without an expensive converter.
 
kalvindeane said:
Is there anywhere that sells small touch-screens, like a tablet? I was thinking it may be possible to hook the pi up to something like that, and have a cheap but decent linux/ICS tablet.
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Considering you can get a decent android tablet with better specs than this for about £120 I can't see it being worth even trying unless you just want a project.
 
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