Raspberry Pi Stock

I for one will be happy just to get a hold of such a fledgling geek product when it arrives.

Yes I was wondering why I got no email but as has been pointed out here I really don't think the engineers concerned were prepared for this unprecedented level of interest from day 1 of launch of a product which doesn;t even have a case available for it yet!

Great work RPi foundation keep it up, I expect many earlier "buzz" catchers will find that there will be a considerable amount of work required to get this device to do much.

The reason embedded systems boards cost so much is due to the low numerical demand for product - these are specialised products not normally sold as commodities.

In relation to Windows on RPi it may indeed be possible to get Windows CE running on it as the ARM platform is supported and perhaps ReactOS (Windows NT clone) may also be recompiled for ARM but full Microsoft Windows does not support this CPU platform.

I think a fair assessment is that "Raspberry Pi Foundation don't do email".  They accepted registrations to their mailing list, but the vast vast vast majority of subscribers have never got a single email back.  There have been lots of complaints about that on the blog.

It's pretty odd because email is such a lightweight service, much lighter than their blog and forum.  It would have stood up well to the rigors of launch day.  A single Linux box can easily handle mailing lists of hundreds of thousands of subscribers and a high volume of postings.

Maybe their Internet sysadmin simply doesn't like email.  Some people really think that Web == Internet and that there's nothing else worthwhile, particularly if they're relatively new.

O.K.....Allow the free market to dictate the price of the Rasb Pi....If the foundation puts all profits back into production, reasonably priced Pi's will soon be available. Just think people!  The foundation is using Obamanomics in their production philosophy! Gues what? It doesn't work!!!!! All the good intentions in the world fail if you ignore Econ101.

I just ordered mine! I got the email inviting me to order from Newark. I paid for it, and now I'm waiting excitedly. However, it's still too early to celebrate. About three months ago I registered interest in the Pi with the foundation, and I did get the Email telling me they were available, but I read it too late to get into the initial action. Then I registered interest with Newark about three days ago,  and Bingo! Still no ETA, tho.

I just ordered mine! I got the email inviting me to order from Newark. I paid for it, and now I'm waiting excitedly. However, it's still too early to celebrate. About three months ago I registered interest in the Pi with the foundation, and I did get the Email telling me they were available, but I read it too late to get into the initial action. Then I registered interest with Newark about three days ago,  and Bingo! Still no ETA, tho.