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End of my frustation

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After following the Raspi infos and discussions for month, I did not get a device or a preorder, even an interest entry.

 

So I decided to stop my frustation today and have ordered a Beaglebone. This has about the same functionalties as

the Raspi, but it is better suited for embedded developments, eg. 64 GPIOs, 4 UARTs, .....

It comes with a Linux distribution and one could even implement Android on it. And TI has some nice daughter boards

in the pipeline.

OK, it is more than double in price, I have to pay around 90 € including tax and shipment. But its worth to start with

my project soon, instead of burning my time waiting for Raspi, Gert-board, etc.

 

So I will have a close look next year to the Raspi project and wish to all of you successful projects.

 

Walter

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  • I guess in time all will even out.  I'm willing to drop my frustration even though I was online a 12:45 am (Canada - EDT) and didn't get through.  There were a lot of people online at that time.  The problem is the implemented sales solution didn't work.  One earlier poster said that they were taking pre-orders 2-days before...who was?  No one was supposed to know until 6:00 GMT on 29 feb that RS and Farnell were the distributors. 

    So at 1am I was on the RPi shop and the main site. RPi shop was gone and main page was down.  By the time the .org site was up on static HTML it was around 1:12. I followed both links to buy.  Problem is the main RS and Farnell sites are setup to cater to the UK.  In both cases there are NO direct links to US or Canadian partners. Eventually I found that Newark handles US and Canada.  The RS partner in Canada still doesn't have any RPi info.

    I'm still a little pissed that I essentially on a "black Friday" type event, I had to walk around the back of the store and crawl through a window while UK residents walked through a wide open front door and got the first 10 bluray players for steal.

    The implemented process was faulty and no one at all can say that if you weren't on at 6:00 GMT then you're just a sore loser. Many people were on at that time. I would assume that even if I new every step in advance and got on the main pages at the right time, that all the extra steps that a Canadian would have to go through would have meant that all 10k would have been gone by the time I would have gotten to the order page.

     

    I guess I'll go back to sulking until 10 may, when supposedly my RPi will begin its long journey to my door.

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  • I guess in time all will even out.  I'm willing to drop my frustration even though I was online a 12:45 am (Canada - EDT) and didn't get through.  There were a lot of people online at that time.  The problem is the implemented sales solution didn't work.  One earlier poster said that they were taking pre-orders 2-days before...who was?  No one was supposed to know until 6:00 GMT on 29 feb that RS and Farnell were the distributors. 

    So at 1am I was on the RPi shop and the main site. RPi shop was gone and main page was down.  By the time the .org site was up on static HTML it was around 1:12. I followed both links to buy.  Problem is the main RS and Farnell sites are setup to cater to the UK.  In both cases there are NO direct links to US or Canadian partners. Eventually I found that Newark handles US and Canada.  The RS partner in Canada still doesn't have any RPi info.

    I'm still a little pissed that I essentially on a "black Friday" type event, I had to walk around the back of the store and crawl through a window while UK residents walked through a wide open front door and got the first 10 bluray players for steal.

    The implemented process was faulty and no one at all can say that if you weren't on at 6:00 GMT then you're just a sore loser. Many people were on at that time. I would assume that even if I new every step in advance and got on the main pages at the right time, that all the extra steps that a Canadian would have to go through would have meant that all 10k would have been gone by the time I would have gotten to the order page.

     

    I guess I'll go back to sulking until 10 may, when supposedly my RPi will begin its long journey to my door.

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