end of "register your interest" at element14

Still waiting to be able to order.  I keep getting the:  "Please try the link in your email again later, we still have your place in line." page.  What is going on?  I have been doing this for days.  You have taken a great idea and made it a real pain.

Technically, on Monday, mid-July will have been and gone, too...

it looks like maybe you can order now, depending on which

link you use.

If you use

http://www.newark.com/raspberry-pi/raspbrry-pcba/raspberry-pi-model-b-board-only/dp/83T1943?Ntt=2081185

and click on "check more stock" it says:

   "10 Expected to ship 16 Aug, 2012

     Further stock expected to ship 2 Dec, 2012"

If you use

http://uk.farnell.com/jsp/search/productdetail.jsp?SKU=2081185

it says:   "Supplier lead time 64 days"

If you use

http://downloads.element14.com/raspberryPi1.html?isRedirect=true

it still says:

"Registration for the Raspberry Pi has now closed. We are currently ensuring that the large number of customers who registered their interest over the final few days of registration have sufficient opportunity to order their Pi, and will be opening to general Raspberry Pi orders mid July."

it looks like maybe you can order now, depending on which

link you use.

If you use

http://www.newark.com/raspberry-pi/raspbrry-pcba/raspberry-pi-model-b-board-only/dp/83T1943?Ntt=2081185

and click on "check more stock" it says:

   "10 Expected to ship 16 Aug, 2012

     Further stock expected to ship 2 Dec, 2012"

If you use

http://uk.farnell.com/jsp/search/productdetail.jsp?SKU=2081185

it says:   "Supplier lead time 64 days"

If you use

http://downloads.element14.com/raspberryPi1.html?isRedirect=true

it still says:

"Registration for the Raspberry Pi has now closed. We are currently ensuring that the large number of customers who registered their interest over the final few days of registration have sufficient opportunity to order their Pi, and will be opening to general Raspberry Pi orders mid July."

looks like orders are accepted now (at the first link in my prior post)

for delivery in 5 weeks.  The other links still say December and 64 days

respectively.

Just ordered, as normal other stuff on the order arrives tomorrow, Pi has estimated delivery of w/c 2012-09-17 which pretty much matches the 64 days.

Only time will tell which one is more accurate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbuWm6qxOiI from the front page post the other day was quite interesting, 4000 a day..

4000 a day is quite a drop from what has previously been claimed.

In this thread:

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=10867

mahjongg writes on Jul 11:

"Its already widely available, tens or even hundreds of thousands are made each day, and sold just as quickly."

Then James says:

"I think the production rate is between 7 and 10k a day - that might be old information though (may now be more),"

I think the latest reports from RS and Element14 are about 10K/week each.

Edited to add:

Apparently Eben brought 200 RPis to sell to the crowd of almost 300

but only 65 reportedly sold.  No idea where the 200 came from.

Maybe they're part of the 400 originally reserved for QtonPi.

Hmm.. wild guessing by people with names highlighted in green, go figure.

But for a moment lets take it at face value, and keeping in mind that these factories will be running 24x7. 10K per day, for the remaining 5 months of this year, approx 1.5 million. And yet you have Eben saying they hope to have 1 million by the end of the year.  4K per day over the same period is 600K in addition to what's already shipped and that seems more in line with the 1m by end of year. You'd have to assume there's some increase in either figure going to happen over the coming months.

As for the 100K per day, 15 million by the end of the year ?  Or just run production for the next 10 days then stop...

Eben almost certainly knows the rate of production of the BCM2835 SoC, as well as Broadcom's volume split between Roku (if any) and Raspberry Pi, so I'd give some credence to what he says.  Plus the fact that among the Foundation members who speak up publicly, he seems to be among the least deliberately deceptive.

coder27 wrote:

 

4000 a day is quite a drop from what has previously been claimed.

Perhaps they can't source enough 1K resistors ...

selsinork wrote:

 

Hmm.. wild guessing by people with names highlighted in green, go figure.

Whenever I see an admin's name at the RasPi forum, I think of Green for Danger (1946), the classic British WWII medical policier starring Alastair Sim as a quirky Scotland Yard man.  One has to be very careful what one says in a thread with admin comments.  Here be green Dragons.

I'm seeing "100 available to ship today" at this link:

http://www.newark.com/raspberry-pi/raspbrry-pcba/raspberry-pi-model-b-board-only/dp/83T1943?Ntt=2081185

(but not at other links)

Seems they must have received the next delivery. the uk site now says "3,330 in stock for next working day delivery (UK stock)"

Seems that Morgaine may have got her wish and they're now available ex-stock ?

Given the number of posts we still seem to see from people who ordered months ago and still havent received theirs you have to wonder what's happening.

au.element14.com shows "3330 deliver in 6 - 7 working days from our UK warehouse" and with only 100 @ newark it's clear there's still some way to go to sort out distribution..

So if farnell have got to the point where they have stock, I wonder if some enterprising bod has tried to sell some to RS to help clear their backlog ?

selsinork wrote:

 

Seems that Morgaine may have got her wish and they're now available ex-stock ?

I'll believe it when I see it at Farnell UK.  Currently only the accessories are normal ex-stock items, while for the Pi itself it says:

• "Order today for expected delivery within 5 weeks."

and it redirects such preorders to export.farnell.com with all the non-account silliness that that entails.  In other words, no change.

Morgaine.