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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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  • a) My understanding is that the different international branches of Farnell had different portions of the total batch allocated to them. In this sense, the UK customers could complain because the UK batch went out first, and international customers were able to preorder for hours after that. Whatever the case, this was not the responsibility of the foundation.

     

    b) I understand your frustration. I live in Greece and had to wake up before 8:00, visit many different sites (Including the Farnell UK, Farnell France, Newark, before finally landing on the Farnell-Export site (which is for customers from countries where there are no local distributors). I spent around two and a half hours in the process. If the Farnell people had been kind and smart enough to provide the foundation with a list of specific URLs for the order pages appropriate for each country, the addresses would have been posted in the raspberrypi.org page, many people would have been spared lots of time. There would have been less traffic at the sites, which means the first batch would have sold out much earlier - probably within minutes. But then again, the same number of people would have been served.

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  • a) My understanding is that the different international branches of Farnell had different portions of the total batch allocated to them. In this sense, the UK customers could complain because the UK batch went out first, and international customers were able to preorder for hours after that. Whatever the case, this was not the responsibility of the foundation.

     

    b) I understand your frustration. I live in Greece and had to wake up before 8:00, visit many different sites (Including the Farnell UK, Farnell France, Newark, before finally landing on the Farnell-Export site (which is for customers from countries where there are no local distributors). I spent around two and a half hours in the process. If the Farnell people had been kind and smart enough to provide the foundation with a list of specific URLs for the order pages appropriate for each country, the addresses would have been posted in the raspberrypi.org page, many people would have been spared lots of time. There would have been less traffic at the sites, which means the first batch would have sold out much earlier - probably within minutes. But then again, the same number of people would have been served.

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