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Maplin Pi bundle - £70

recantha

Interesting...

http://www.maplin.co.uk/raspberrypi

£70 for the Pi, 2100mA power supply, 4GB SD with loaded OS, mains powered 4 port hub, keyboard, mouse, wifi nano dongle, HDMI cable.

  • Interesting indeed.

     

    It says:

     

    "This product is due in-stock at the end of September 2012."

     

    I wonder if this implies that Pi will become available ex-stock from the two manufacturing partners by that date?  It's a bit ambiguous since it's both "due in-stock" and also "Pre-order, first come, first served" so clearly the supply will be limited, and we can't really infer that the Pi will be available ex-stock to Maplin from that.

     

    Has RPF mentioned Maplin's offering yet?

     

    Morgaine.

  • in reply to morgaine

    Nope, they haven't mentioned it. I was just poking around on Maplin for bits n pieces and that's what came up when I typed in "Pi".

    Of course, them mentioning it would require communication ;-)

  • in reply to recantha

    There is a posting today on the RasPi forums with  lots of bits and pieces, one of those is the Maplin Kit.

    It would be good to see it on the high street, but i'm not convinced at the price point they will sell too many?

    Steve

  • in reply to GreenYamo

    Liz writes:

    http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=15138&start=8

     

       "The Foundation will be checking and verifying all the peripherals in the bundle (Maplin have already done this work themselves, but we wanted to be doubly sure) for compatibility before it goes out to customers, so you don't run a danger of buying a set with parts that don't work."

     

    I'm looking forward to seeing the test plan and maybe even the test results.

    Will keyboard repeats be tested?

    Will mixing USB 1.1 with 2.0 devices on the hub be tested?

     

    I recall, on March 9, 2012 at 8:24 pm, Liz wrote:

    "(we test every single thing that comes from the factory)"

    http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/781 (page 3)

     

    but that testing seemed to miss some important failure modes.

  • in reply to Former Member

    Well it would have been nice if they'd first tested the hub that their own manufacturing partners advertise as a Pi Accessory for compatibility with the Pi.  Wasting 8 quid for a "Pi hub" that turns out to be incompatible with Pi because it backfeeds power upstream didn't bother me in practice because I stuck it on an x86 PC and it works fine there, but it's wrong on principle.  And those 8 quid might have been some unhappy youngster's last 8 quid.

     

    (And although it's not Pi compatibility testing, someone really ought to take note that supplying a 1.0A PSU when it claims 2.0A PSU on the packaging is really not up to Best of British standards.  Presumably the fault lies with Dynamode, but the buck unfortunately stops with Farnell.)