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.

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.

Billy Thornton wrote:

 

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.

I requested a rev2 board and got a rev1.

Good news.  Just had confirmation

Samantha Povey
Customer Care Specialist
element14 (formerly Farnell)

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Fergus Byrne wrote:

 

Billy Thornton wrote:

 

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.

I requested a rev2 board and got a rev1.

I was talking about the mythical 512Mb - you said return Again.

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Fergus Byrne wrote:

 

Billy Thornton wrote:

 

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.

I requested a rev2 board and got a rev1.

I was talking about the mythical 512Mb - you said return Again.

I should have been more clear:

I ordered a raspberry pi and expected to get a Rev2 board to find that I got a rev1 board was a bit disappointing.

Anyway, someone metioned a broken link, it is back online now and is accessable from:

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