RPi with 512mb Memory?

Good Morning,

I ordered a Pi on Friday last (31/8). I noticed this morning that there is now 512 mB model, so I rang the 1300 no and spoke to a VERY helpful lady called Siri.

She confirmed stock availability and as my order had not yet been processed she changed it for the new one.

I paid the difference between the original invoice cost and the new price (ca $3.50).

It now 11.40 am and she promised a Pi to my hands by close of trading today!!

I have also checked out the prices for peripherals at Jaycar: HDMI to DVI cable is $25 as is the wireless dongle, So it is better to shop at element14.

BTW I have a new apple iphone charfer which is rated at 1 A  5V; guess this will work with the pi when it arrives. Now looking for powered USB for it.

Hope this helps,

Larry North

Larry North wrote:

 

Good Morning,

 

I ordered a Pi on Friday last (31/8). I noticed this morning that there is now 512 mB model, so I rang the 1300 no and spoke to a VERY helpful lady called Siri.

She confirmed stock availability and as my order had not yet been processed she changed it for the new one.

I paid the difference between the original invoice cost and the new price (ca $3.50).

 

It now 11.40 am and she promised a Pi to my hands by close of trading today!!

 

I have also checked out the prices for peripherals at Jaycar: HDMI to DVI cable is $25 as is the wireless dongle, So it is better to shop at element14.

 

BTW I have a new apple iphone charfer which is rated at 1 A  5V; guess this will work with the pi when it arrives. Now looking for powered USB for it.

 

 

Hope this helps,

 

Larry North

Can you show us this RPi when it arrives later today.  We need to confirm if there is a 512mb model in the wild.

This is Australia based.

Larry North wrote:

 

Happy to..now you have me bemused.

 

i am in Sydney, is this a discussion boardnot in Australia?

 

here is the web page I looked at this morning before changing my order.:

 

http://au.element14.com/jsp/search/productdetail.jsp?id=2081185&Ntt=2081185&COM=raspberrypi-group

 

 

Regards

 

Larry North

That is not the 512mb model...that is a 256mb model.

What you said before:

[q] so I rang the 1300 no and spoke to a VERY helpful lady called Siri.

She confirmed stock availability and as my order had not yet been processed she changed it for the new one.

I paid the difference between the original invoice cost and the new price (ca $3.50). [/q]

Did you get a confirmation email?  Your case sounds a bit strange.

Hello,

Well it arrived and then I recieved a rather apologetic phone ecall from the young lady.....it would appear that the page advertising 512 mB was ''a mistake' (her words).

Look, I am more than happy with the pi, they did not charge for the extra 256  mB and i have it up and running.

I am about to set a static ip and set it up for ssh the who knows!

However, I would like to get a wireless nic if anyone has any ideas. The netgear one I have does not seem to work (yet?)

BTW, i easily solved my power and usb problems. I have an old Dell led 19 inch monitor which has 4 powered usb ports. I ahve one for the pi power, one for a keyboard and one for a mouse. Works a treat.

I have seen similar monitors for ca $30 in op-shops.

Gosh, this is fun!

Larry North

On the wireless front:

I use a Edimax nano card that I bought from Jaycar. http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView.asp?ID=YN8309

As you said before, you live in sydney...be careful.  I think that Jaycar are just changing over to a different no-name one.  FYI: The Gore Hill store has already done this and has none of the above in stock.  Do some calling around and see if you can find one.

This particular model has a self-installer script that someone on the RPi.org forum has posted.  http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=6256

Really easy to install (if you have a one-off ethernet connection).

Hope this helps.

Fergus,

many thanks.

I have found a really good series of tutorials by Cambridge uni for freshers (ie 1st year students) to introduce the concepts of operating systems and unix usin the pi.

I am new to using posts etc, so am unsure where to put thelink.

it is

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/freshers/raspberrypi/tutorials/os/

Apologies if it is in the wrong place. Please direct me to where it should be.

regards

Larry North

Larry North wrote:

 

Fergus,

 

many thanks.

 

I have found a really good series of tutorials by Cambridge uni for freshers (ie 1st year students) to introduce the concepts of operating systems and unix usin the pi.

 

I am new to using posts etc, so am unsure where to put thelink.

 

it is

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/freshers/raspberrypi/tutorials/os/

 

Apologies if it is in the wrong place. Please direct me to where it should be.

 

regards

 

Larry North

I think @MorgaineDinova was running something relating to useful links.  I don't know how to get in contact with her though.

Fergus,

I have purchased the following wifi dongle from dx.com at 1/3rd the cost;

http://dx.com/p/ep-n8508gs-ieee802-11b-g-n-150mbps-usb-wireless-network-adapter-dongle-black-94225

It works perfectly and can be installed with the script.  Also if you use Raspbmc or Openelec it can be installed by using their Wifi Manager.  I have ordered 2 more as I have 3 RPis.

See ya...........

Peter

Message was edited by: Peter Long

Glad the above worked.

Hello Peter,

Thanks for the advise re the dongle. I ordered one that same day. It arried 15 mins ago and I am up and running now! Brill

Regards

Larry North

Hello Peter,

Thanks for the advise re the dongle. I ordered one that same day. It arried 15 mins ago and I am up and running now! Brill

Regards

Larry North

Hello Peter,

Thanks for the advise re the dongle. I ordered one that same day. It arried 15 mins ago and I am up and running now! Brill

Regards

Larry North

It is NOW released!!!  I got an email confirmation from Element14 Yesterday.

This is odd considering that the link is broken

I ordered a Pi a week ago and I received it today, I got a paper stating 'RASPBERRY PI WITH 512 MB RAM, Thank You For Your Order, We have a little surprise for you, Inside the box is a new Rasberry Pi with 512MB RAM waiting for you!. Faster... Double RAM... Same Price...'

Yes I did not pay extra also, I will be uploading images soon, as I'm in the office right now!

I dont know if this is a joke or not, maybe you guys will be able to help

Post a copy of the paper you received with the board so others can see and tell you if it is fake or not.

Just check over on the E14 site, Raspberry Pis with 256mb are no-longer manufactred!

He must be telling the truth!

http://au.element14.com/raspberry-pi/raspbrry-pcba/sbc-raspberry-pi-model-b/dp/208118501

Ammar Mirza wrote:

 

I ordered a Pi a week ago and I received it today, I got a paper stating 'RASPBERRY PI WITH 512 MB RAM, Thank You For Your Order, We have a little surprise for you, Inside the box is a new Rasberry Pi with 512MB RAM waiting for you!. Faster... Double RAM... Same Price...'

 

Yes I did not pay extra also, I will be uploading images soon, as I'm in the office right now!

 

I dont know if this is a joke or not, maybe you guys will be able to help

Probably not a joke -- I recently heard that populating RasPis with 512MB RAMs was up to the distributors.  If they can sell 512MB RasPis for US$35, they can go right ahead and do so.  At some point larger RAMs become as cheap as smaller RAMs, and the smaller ones actually get more expensive as chip makers switch over to the larger ones.  Over the long run, RAM chips never get cheaper -- they just get bigger for the same price, just like disk drives.

Can you find the RAM chip part number?  It's the large square labeled IC2.  (The BCM2835 is under the RAM chip.)  For example, my rev 1 RasPi is a Samsung K4P2G324ED, where "2G32" = 2 Gbit (256MB), 32-bits wide.  You may need a magnifier to read the number.

I wonder how much faster Midori and other browsers will be with 512MB.  My understanding of GNU/Linux is that it tries to keep disk files and directories in RAM and only spills them out to mass storage (e.g., SD card) when it needs those RAM pages for something else.  If the browser and Internet cache fit into RAM, there's little need for SD card access and a major bottleneck should go away.

I didn't say he is lying and as I mentioned on some other post I saw this coming without previous announcement.

One potential part from Samsung could be K4P4G164EB

http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/product/mobile-dram/detail?productId=7608&iaId=747

-J

There's a new thread about this chez RasPi: Raspberry Pi with 512MB RAM in the Wild and Element14 [stops selling 256MB].  A comment in the thread has a link to a valid uk.farnell.com page with 512MB RasPi.  Still GBP25.

Well, as I believe Oscar Wilde said, I can resist everything except temptation.

I've ordered one, let's see what turns up :-)

Steve

I saw it, and also the reference that the boards are being assembled in China instead in the UK.

Unfortunatelly they are not yet properly listed on the US site (newark,) I was also planning to place an order, I was looking to get a Rev 2.0 board but actually waiting for the 512MB.