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First unboxing pictures... maybe?

e14 Contributor

I am not sure if this counts as a first unboxing, but I thought I would share it with you all anyway.

 

I was extremely lucky to be one of the Element14 Road Test winners and this morning and was very surprised and excited to receive a box from Farnell/Element14 via UPS.

 

I should say that it did come with a disclaimer that says it is an R&D Prototype and that it is not necessarily in the form that the final, finished product will be made available.  I guess that is in case any changes are required as a consequence of the compliance testing.

 

At the risk of being deluged with questions that I cannot answer yet, or hate mail from the angry and frustrated (please don't hate me) I thought I would share a few pics before I get back to my day job.

 

 

Sorry, I just had to rip the box open before I got the camera out.

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It really is very neat and small, but the really exciting part should hopefully come this evening when I get chance to power it up!

 

Here it is inside my first box.  It is a plastic business card box that has now been recycled and put to a better use.  This really brings home to me how small the R-Pi really is.

 

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I still have to cut the holes when I get time.

 

I have a lot to learn and a lot of work before my Road Test Review, but I hope you like the pics...

  • Thanks for posting those Gizmo,

     

    It would be interesting to know though whether that is actually one of the first 'production models', or indeed just another developement or prototype board.

     

    We still look forward to reading your initial thoughts and findings in due course however, so I can see you are in for a busy weekend! image

  • in reply to Montala

    From the pics posted on the front of the raspberrypi.org website, they have the bright yellow composite video jack, the same as mine, whereas the other early proto pic I have seen has a black jack, so I would guess it is from that new batch...

     

    Whether it is the same as the final relased production units will depend on the compliance testing and whether any needs to be changed, I imagine.

  • Please, comeback soon.

    Connect the plugs

    we look forward to your first feelings

  • Happy for you but how can competition winners get there Pi's before us that got up at 5:30am and fought our way through the chaos to get a order in?

    RaspberryPi.org has just posted the supposedly first pictures of the first boards in the country, these are either a few days old or Farnell has had it's own delivery to be able to deliver to Road Testers as well.

     

    Does anyone have an explanation or we being mushroomed again?

  • in reply to e14 Contributor

    Liz from Raspberry Pi here - the board that went out as a competition prize was one of element14's qualification prototype boards, not a production board.

     

    ETA: Eben says to tell GizmoB73 that the Raspberry Pi you won is one of a few which he and Pete were working on personally to get ready for EM testing. Hope that adds some sort of frisson!

  • Well done - that's awesome!  Let us know how you get on, it'll be nice to know what your first impressions are.

  • in reply to e14 Contributor

    Well if it is any consolation, probably just like you and many others, I have followed the foundations progress with eager anticipation for months and I was up at 05:30 too and spent a good few hours hitting the F5 key as soon as I read the announcement at 06:00.

     

    By an incredible stroke of good fortune, I was selected as a Road Test Winner, but as I mentioned in my first post, this is a prototype and not a final finished product.

     

    Thanks for adding some clarity Liz, and to know that Eben and Pete have been personally working on this board is pretty mind blowing.  I think frisson would be an understatement for how I am feeling.

     

    Gizmo

  • in reply to e14 Contributor

    Look forward to your experiences, now I have got over my insane jealousy it will be nice to get an independent view of it.

     

    It would be better for mine and others blood pressure if they didn't keep dangling these carrots under our noses like webinars for boards we cant have and pictures of boxes full of them that they can't ship and either just put the whole thing on hold or send me one and put me out of my misery.

     

    I'm off for a stiff drink, bet gizmo will be up all night playing with his new toy the lucky so and so image

  • Nobody is frustrated or jealous here, element14 is not a kids forum.

    So please, here are some tests we all would like you to do,

     

    what are

     

    the boot time

    the maximum display resolution

    the reported available memory

     

    some usefull commands

     

    Ttcp - measures the point-to-point bandwidth over a network connection

    Hdparm - "-t" and "-T" options can be used to measure disk-to-memory transfer rates

    Dga - the "-b" option measures CPU/video memory bandwidth

     

    some benchmarks

     

    Bonnie++, io throughput benchmark,

    Iozone, broad filesystem analysis. The benchmark tests file I/O performance,

    BYTEmark, CPU benchmark suite, reporting CPU/cache/memory, integer and floating-point performance

    Cachebench, measures bandwidth of the memory subsystem (L1, L2 and main memory)

     

    thx

  • That last post should have given you a few ideas Gizmo... assuming that you needed some, that is!

     

    Anyway, it's getting a bit late now here in the U.K., and I'm off to bed.

     

    I am sure though that you will be working all night with your new 'baby', and I will look forward to reading a full report in the morning! image