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.

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

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.

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.

Hey man - you got the inside track? Where you here

John Beetem wrote:

 

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.

Hey dude, you got inside info? Whered you hear that the memory size was up to the distributers?

Bill

Billy Thornton wrote:

 

Hey man - you got the inside track? Where you ... hear that the memory size was up to the distributers?

I heard it last month in a one-on-one conversation with someone who was in a position to know.  Since he didn't announce it to the whole group and didn't specifically say it was for publication and attribution, I'll remain vague.  OTOH, he didn't say that it was a secret.  If it was secret I doubt he would have told me.

Real quiet here on this - I'm interested - this true or not? Only clue seems to be in the cross posting between this thread and the one over there, not much to go on.

Bill.

512MB Model B appears to be quite real.

uk.farnell has 238 units left (over 300 earlier today IIRC): http://uk.farnell.com/raspberry-pi/raspbrry-modb-512m/sbc-raspberry-pi-model-b-512mb/dp/2191863

au.element14 has 393 units left: http://au.element14.com/raspberry-pi/raspbrry-modb-512m/sbc-raspberry-pi-model-b-512mb/dp/2191863

USA Newark won't let you order any RasPis at this time, but does list the 512MB Model B if you scroll down a bit from the top.  However, the 512MB link doesn't go anywhere useful at the moment: http://www.newark.com/jsp/search/productdetail.jsp?SKU=83T1943#similarProducts

Just ordered one from Element14 in Australia.  I'm in Sydney so should be here in a day or so, then will see if this is true.

Update: There is a Whats New posted on http://www.element14.com/community/docs/DOC-42993/l/raspberry-pi-single-board-computer "Raspberry Pi Revision 2 - What's New? but I can't open the page.  Anyone able to see it?

Yup it is starting to show listed on many sites.

Just a guess but probably will get announced with the release of Android 4.0

Peter Long wrote:

 

Just ordered one from Element14 in Australia.  I'm in Sydney so should be here in a day or so, then will see if this is true.

 

Update: There is a Whats New posted on http://www.element14.com/community/docs/DOC-42993/l/raspberry-pi-single-board-computer "Raspberry Pi Revision 2 - What's New? but I can't open the page.  Anyone able to see it?

Let me know, I wanted a rev 2 but couldn't get one last time I ordered.

I will be annoyied if I have to return again.

It may be worth asking the admins here to confirm that the link

http://www.element14.com/community/docs/DOC-50776/l/raspberry-pi-model-b-revision-20-512mb-changes

is indeed meant to be protected and inaccessible, or whether that's a bug.  If it's correct then the referencing page linked by Peter should probably be modified --- it needs fixing anyway, as it's claiming that the Model A has 128MB of memory.

Hi all,

Sorry for the delay, here are some pictures I took of the board, receipt and some paper which says it's 512MB.

I have uploaded them to a site as the pictures were too big.

http://imageshack.us/g/72/imageqnf.jpg/

Fergus Byrne wrote:

 

Peter Long wrote:

 

Just ordered one from Element14 in Australia.  I'm in Sydney so should be here in a day or so, then will see if this is true.

 

Update: There is a Whats New posted on http://www.element14.com/community/docs/DOC-42993/l/raspberry-pi-single-board-computer "Raspberry Pi Revision 2 - What's New? but I can't open the page.  Anyone able to see it?

Let me know, I wanted a rev 2 but couldn't get one last time I ordered.

 

I will be annoyied if I have to return again.

Why would you have to return again? You got exactly what you requested...a 256MB Raspberry PI.