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First Run of Raspberry Pi Boards To Be Completed Feb 20th

Posted by Unknown on from the hurry-up-and-take-the-money dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Raspberry Pi has confirmed the first batch of $35 PCs will be constructed on February 20. They've also coaxed Broadcom into releasing the datasheet for the board. Apparently the company hit a snag with the quartz crystal package so there was a manufacturing delay, but it's since been resolved and things are on schedule for later this month." From the announcements: "Eben and I may be going to China to make sure that the boards can be brought up properly for that date if necessary. We’ll be airfreighting them to the UK immediately, so you should be able to buy them before the end of the month."

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  1. What about shipping directly from China? by mehrotra.akash · · Score: 4, Insightful

    For Asian markets, why dont they ship directly from China instead of moving them to UK first and then shipping them to their destinations
    Infact, for all non EU destinations wont it make more sense to ship directly from China?
    Will avoid multiple customs duties as well. (no customs will need to be paid for the UK entry)

  2. Re:Hot damn, it's about time by SJHillman · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I predict all of the Pi stories will move from my Slashdot RSS feed to my Hackaday RSS feed.

  3. Not constructed - Completed by The+Jynx · · Score: 4, Informative

    Raspberry Pi has confirmed the first batch of $35 PCs will be constructed on February 20

    To save any ambiguity, the actual release says:

    The good news is that this finally means we have a date for the first batch: the boards will be finished on February 20

  4. Re:Hot damn, it's about time by stevenvi · · Score: 4, Informative

    Read up on it for more information. This is my understanding of it:

    • The Model A (128 MB RAM, no ethernet port) is $25
    • The Model B (256 MB RAM, ethernet port) is $35

    The first run is of the Model B, as they anticipate more people are interested in that set of hardware. Their FAQ likely provides more in-depth information that what I have provided here.

  5. Re:Biggest Issue is Supported Codecs by CaptainLard · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Thankfully, this will NEVER be a ____ killer! For once we don't have to worry about losing development support when X device fails to achieve 25% market share by Q3. Thankfully, the PI is produced by a non-profit so no hedge fund manager can pull the plug when the projected growth rate increase drops below 50% or whatever they do in their volcano fortresses (I kid I kid).

    ...if you have hopes for Flash and Silverlight based streaming services...

    How much widget-ry (advertising sources) do you even need? I have hopes that Raspberry Pi will accomplish their mission of letting whoever wants to program, learn how to program. In my opinion, the smarter the human race, the better. /naivedreams. And the best part about all of this is, if you do care enough about Hulu etc, you can just take chromium and adapt it to the PI or wait till it runs android apps, etc. I think the biggest issue is getting these things out to the people that want them.