Raspberry Pi Goes On Sale In US, Sells Out 75
hypnosec writes "Easter has brought some good news for Raspberry Pi fans in the US as the $25 Model A of the credit card sized computer is now available in the United States. Texas based Allied Electronics is the first local retailer selling the Raspberry Pi in the U.S. and has been selling the Pi through its online store. (There were companies selling the Raspberry Pi over eBay to U.S. users for a higher price tag earlier.) The Model A has sold out completely and as of this writing there is zero availability."
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I've been buying the model B...
This article is about the Model A?
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I've been buying the model B from Adafruit for a while now. Check your facts, seriously.
Indeed. You have been able to buy a Raspberry Pi from Amazon [amazon.com] for months.
Re:What? (Score:5, Informative)
That's the Model B, this is about the Model A, the cheaper version that was initially touted and got a lot of headlines for just that.
Availability (Score:2, Funny)
So it's "now available" yet there is none available?
I see.
Raspberry Pi is just an April Fools Joke. (Score:2)
It's been years in the making but the hopes of just ordering one on Newegg and getting it a couple days later. I'm gonna chalk it up to a very slow rolling April Fools joke.
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This article is about the Model A
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The headline "Raspberry Pi Goes On Sale In US, Sells Out" isn't specific to the model A.
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Now if only there was some text under the headline, to explain the headline and summarize the story, but I suppose that would be asking too much.
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How long did it take you from order to arrival?
Reminds me of the old joke (Score:5, Funny)
Customer: "They're selling this product for $50 below list price across the street."
Retailer: "OK, so buy it across the street".
Customer: "They said they don't have it in stock".
Retailer: "If I didn't have it in stock, I could sell it for $100 off list."
Yes but is this 10 units like MS Surface or? (Score:1)
Was it 300,000?
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Slashdot - News by Morons (Score:5, Insightful)
Allied isn't the only retailer that has them.
I can see 3 different US resellers with them in stock, shipping today, as others mentioned in posts. Model As and Bs.
The Raspberry Pi itself has been on sale in the US over a year.
The only people buying As are the ones who don't know how to find Bs and think there is no one other than the two adwords results at the top of Google search list that sell them.
Congratulations, you posted a story about a rather well known and popular computing device ... and get every single detail of it wrong in every possible way.
You have whole demonstrated you have no fucking clue what you are doing.
Re:Slashdot - News by Morons (Score:5, Insightful)
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The only people buying As are the ones who don't know how to find Bs
Ok, you have no clue.
Re:Slashdot - News by Morons (Score:5, Informative)
>The only people buying As are the ones who don't know how to find Bs
Bzzt. Wrong. Model A is the low-power version preferred by the "maker" community, as having no ethernet and no built-in USB hub, it consumes just 300mA / 1.5W compared to Model B's 600mA / 3.5W. Connect a Model A to a cheapo "emergency phone charger" and you can go for quite a while. Adding a USB nano bluetooth adaptor or wifi adaptor edges up the consumption by 100-150mA, still well under the Model B.
If you're looking for something to be the heart of something battery powered, like a remote control car, mobile robot or something you can port around with you, the Model A is where you want to be. Well, assuming you want a "full" Linux box - if your project only requires very minimal computing power then an Arduino will cost even less, but you usually have to control it from another PC.
Re:Slashdot - News by Morons (Score:5, Interesting)
I already have a few Model B's. I will develop on a Model B, because the ram makes a performance difference. My projects seem to either need more than 2 USB ports anyway, so the built in 2 port USB hub on the B doesn't help. I usually have an external hub. And most things I do are wireless, so the built in ethernet isn't useful. So why pay the extra 3.5 watts?
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You fail for using the word maker in quotes.
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There are people who make things - It would be appropriate to call them makers... And then there are people who subscribe to the philosophy that this is somehow new and brilliant. This rubs some people the wrong way, and they may decide to call attention to it by placing "maker" in quotes.
Personally, I think the maker movement is a good thing, but they've attracted some of the lunatic fringe. Some "makers" are neither making useful things, nor are they as cool as they'd like to believe. Yet they're part
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--At times like this I feel compelled to mention the Cubieboard - it can run at 500mA / 1W (altho 2W is preferred IIRC; personally I power mine off the USB port on my Router or TV), has better hardware specs than the Pi -- including a SATA port, and can actually *max out* its Ethernet 100Mbit connection. It's a bit pricier, but a much more capable Linux board - it's become my primary Squid server for the household.
http://cubieboard.org/ [cubieboard.org]
Re:Slashdot - News by Morons (Score:5, Funny)
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Should take you only 70 or 80 years to make a block or two at that rate.
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Throw in an angry Linus Torvald's rant, dedicate it to Aaron Schwartz and blame any failures on a patent lawsuit by Monsanto.
You'll blow people's minds.
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A local place has them near me (Score:1, Insightful)
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he Model B is available at MCM Electronics and they have the cases, pi/case combos, Gerboard, Pi-Face, Humble-Pi, Slice of Pi, Arduino goodies, screens, user interface stuff etc.... .
With $15.99 shipping. No thank you.
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MCM electronics (Score:2)
has had the Raspberry Pi available [mcmelectronics.com] for several months now.
It seems that the article only refers to sales from Allied, not any of the other dozen places you could get one in the US from.
It's like hearing pretzels are sold out and unavailable in the US, only to read closer and see that just one store sold out of their initial inventory.
Re:MCM electronics (Score:5, Interesting)
News that matters? (Score:2, Insightful)
I bought two Pi B's from Allied just before Christmas. Am enjoying both of them right now. What, exactly, is the point of this story?
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What, exactly, is the point of this story?
** commercial space for rent **
Am I missing something?
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The Pi B is a different product from the Pi A.
What, exactly, is the point of your post?
What, exactly, is the point of, all, these, commas?
Pi Model C (Score:1)
plug (Score:2)
At least some articles about the raspberry pi have some value added by showing you stuff you can do with it.
This is just a shameless plug to sell the product, and from what I have seen there are a lot of products with similar or better capabilities in smaller form factor with a case and power.
Shameless plug? (Score:3, Interesting)
Dunno what planet you live on, but there's now over a million of the little buggers out in the wild - not bad for a credit-card sized basic computer system that runs Linux (other OS's available too, btw). If the sales of the model B had been in line with the Foundations initial expectation, ie around 10,000 or so, then "shameless plugs might be the order of the day.
For someting thats not a general consumer item, then SALES of a million devices in just over a year (not just inventory stock) is bloody good
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not bad for a credit-card sized basic computer system
It's not credit card sized. It's credit card length.
Their goal was to make it with a credit card sized footprint, so it could fit into existing cases, but they failed on the height.
ISO 7810 specifies credit cards as 85.60 x 53.98 x 0.76 mm (plus embossing).
The Raspberry Pi is 85.60 x 56 x 21 mm.
Re:Shameless plug? (Score:5, Interesting)
I am playing with a pcDuino from Gadget Factory [gadgetfactory.net], and they are also available from Sparkfun dealers.
At US$59 it is a bit more expensive, but does have a few advantages
- Onboard 2GB of Flash to hold an OS - no SD card needed!
- Decent Power supply system for USB ports
- 1GHz A8 CPU - More than 2x as fast
- 1GB RAM
- Mali 400 graphics accelerator
- Android image available
- No need for an I/O expander for hardware hacking
Once you take off the cost of a powered USB hub and an SD card for the making the Pi usable I think it is price neutral between the two.
I've been using Android on it to play back 1080p files (at 720p) without a problem, and play Angry Birds Star Wars... can't do that on a Pi.
The Australian company Miniand make similar boards, some with cases and so on. Their Cubieboard even has SATA header on it, and I've got one with a 2.5" 120GB disk hanging off it...
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Forgot to say, the pcDuino is US$59 + shipping, the Cubieboard is US$65+shipping (and that included cables and case). Both came in about a week to New Zealand.
This website [linux-sunxi.org] is the center of the world for the Allwinner A10 SoC that these boards and quite a few other systems are based on, and individual boards have their own board specific forums too (e.g. http://www.pcduino.com/ [pcduino.com]) . As the A10 SoC is used in a lot of low-end Android tablets I am pretty sure that it will have shipped more units than Raspberry
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specifically didn't post a product due to being called a shill, and as I post alternatives I've seen ill just get "but it doesn't have this," besides I'm not an expert in this area, I know I've seen a kickstarter for one that has add-on board kits that have single and double AA battery power supplies, usb boards, and so on. I believe it had wifi built in as well for a similar price point to the pi A.
I'm sure it lacks something and benefits another way. I'm sure PI is a killer hardware device for certain ap
Re:plug (Score:5, Interesting)
As a package, the Pi is already obsolete and outclassed. Where it does have an advantage is it's very easy to flash (just stick an SD in it), has a large and coherent support base, and has some connectors for hooking it up to other things.
I bought two of them last year (Score:2)
What, Newark element14 is not easy enough to order from? Does it really matter? My two Raspberry Pi units arrived almost instantly from Newark element14 the moment they became available.
Why is this news? Just cut it out, already.
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In case you didn't already know, Newark element14 is a USA vendor owned by Premier Farnel and based in Indiana. This so-called "news" story is a waste of everyone's time.
Sheesh.