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First unboxing pictures... maybe?

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e14 Contributor over 14 years ago

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...

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    e14 Contributor over 14 years ago

    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

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    e14 Contributor over 14 years ago in reply to e14 Contributor

    jacques,

    It looks like we have byte-unixbench results here:

     

    https://gist.github.com/2385330

     

    courtesy of OmerK

    http://www.designspark.com/content/adventures-pi-initial-thoughts

     

    [updated link per comments below]

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    morgaine over 14 years ago in reply to e14 Contributor

    Re your last link ....  Apparently DesignSpark user pages are not public, very annoying.

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    xtramural over 14 years ago in reply to morgaine

    Hmm! Seems that http://www.designspark.com/content/adventures-pi-initial-thoughts  may be the same version except publically available. I can't tell for sure since I'm not registered on DesignSpark! Not sure how DesignSpark differentiates between 'content' and 'knowledge' ;-)

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    xtramural over 14 years ago in reply to morgaine

    Hmm! Seems that http://www.designspark.com/content/adventures-pi-initial-thoughts  may be the same version except publically available. I can't tell for sure since I'm not registered on DesignSpark! Not sure how DesignSpark differentiates between 'content' and 'knowledge' ;-)

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    morgaine over 14 years ago in reply to xtramural

    Thanks xtramural, your link worked without login.  Yes, hopefully it's the same content. image

     

    Addendum:  Excellent stuff from Omer -- he also has a site here http://omer.me/ .

     

    I like Erlang a lot as a language (I did my research in concurrency, way back), so this is material that I'll be following closely.

     

    Morgaine.

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