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What Really Stews Me...

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Former Member over 13 years ago

Yup, my regular simmer with respect to getting my RPi is getting rather close to an outright boil.

 

I guess from the number of posts on the Raspberrypi.org site, as well as various 3rd party forums, people are starting to get their RPi units.  Some are obvious that they are somehow linked or close to the Foundation or part of marketing recipients.  Others are likely regular customers that got through on the launch day.

 

But what really gets me is when you find out that there are already new "boxed" RPi on eBay.  Although these days I take everything with some skepticism, at least one seller (they are all from the UK) states that he is selling his "second" one because he order one from each of RS and Farnell.  So while people like me were up at god awful hours in the middle of the night trying to even access the Raspberrypi.org and .com (store) sites to find out that we needed to order through RS and Farnell (but not RS and Farnell if outside North America, but not Allied or Newark directly if from Canada...) well some people were able to order multiple units. 

 

It's great that some people are receiving theirs, and I will be very happy to read posts on the web about successes and failures.  But what I really want now is information, real firm information...no guessing.  I think we are owed it.

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    robotonics over 13 years ago

    What bothers me is being left so far behind...I am struggling to motivate myself to keep up already, absolutely no good without the hardware...

     

    Probably will ignore it now, as I find it a bit limited compared to other boards. The cost is the only reason why I ordered one, too cheap to pass up.

     

    Perhaps you could use your enthusiasm elsewhere too? image

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    Former Member over 13 years ago in reply to robotonics

    Funny, I've been in a mini-ITX buying spree recently (I know it is a different category) but in the absence of an RPi, I bought and built enough stuff that I now have four unused system in boxes waiting for someone on Kijiji or eBay to buy them.  I spent way more money on these than the RPi is worth.

     

    To distract me from this distraction, I'm now trying to work outdoors now that all the snow is gone.

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    robotonics over 13 years ago in reply to Former Member

    Now that is interesting...send me a link and I just might buy one!

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