RPi with 512mb Memory?

John Beetem wrote:

 

Billy Thornton wrote:

 

My prediction now; there will never be a 1GB version. You heard it here first! (Citation : no one makes 1GB ddr2 PoP ram, and its an old technology, so no-one ever will).

Billy, you forgot to include a smiley

 

On Sept 2 earlier in this thread, John Beetem wrote:

 

The RasPi forum has just twigged to the 512MB version: see this thread.  On 31 August jamesh said that 512MB is the limit for the current board.  He didn't give away any RasPi Foundation plans.

 

Now, here's my prediction: there won't be a 1GB version with the BCM2835.  But there will most likely be future RasPis with different SoCs, perhaps even ones with a more powerful general-purpose CPU or multiple CPUs so you can dedicate one to USB and other housekeeping.

But that's cheating! I'd put money on their being a new Raspberry Pi with better SoC and 1GB but only when the p[rice point meets what they sell for now. And that will be a year at least.

The process of design, manufacture and release takes months end to end.  During that period, the 512MB version was never mythical, because mythical denotes products of the imagination which do not exist and will never exist.  In this case the 512MB version was completely tangible to RPF over that period, and to the rest of us it was a product with steadily increasing probability of existence as facts about it emerged piecemeal here and there.

This is how the community has to obtain its information by combining hints from various sources, because the Foundation's planning is not open about this.  Calling fellow members' estimates "myths" is not helpful here.

Hello Jamodio. . .

I'm happy to report I've just purchased the new Raspi, model B with 512Mb. Nice that it was $35 (+6 to ship) from the Newark site. Receipt said "1 available to ship today". Great way to start a Monday. . .now if only the line on my order history for the Gertboard would say SHIPPED, we'd have a perfect day!

Best

Peg

Thanks Peg,

I also placed an order after receiving the email I posted before, funny thing is that my order confirmation recevied at 9:25am says expected ship date 10/22/12, but at 9:46am I received another email stating that they had boards in stock.

I didn't receive an update for my order yet.

-J

John Beetem wrote:

 

But there will most likely be future RasPis with different SoCs, perhaps even ones with a more powerful general-purpose CPU or multiple CPUs so you can dedicate one to USB and other housekeeping.

It's a reasonable guess that no engineer (hardware or software) who has been stung by the Pi's USB faults will want to repeat that experience.  Whatever SoC is chosen for the next Pi design, I think it is highly likely that it will contain a fully functional USB controller in hardware.

There's a limit to how much punishment people are willing to take.

The 100 512MB Model Bs sold out at Newark in the first hour.  I already had one of the model Bs on back order with Allied.  I assume all back ordered Model Bs will be filled with the new 512MB version?  Or will the old version still be made?

I ordered with Newark a week ago, and I just got this e-mail:

"Dear XXX,

We're excited to inform you that the Raspberry Pi 256MB that you recently purchased has been automatically upgraded to the brand new 512MB at no additional cost. The new Raspberry Pi has double the RAM memory, which more than doubles the user accessible memory. To find out more about the technical benefits of the new Pi 512MB, see the highlights below or Click Here. We hope you enjoy the speed of your new Raspberry Pi-now on its way to you.

Visit our accessories page today and create your own starter kit. Learn more and see the Raspberry Pi in action at element14 community. "

That said, my order status page still says backordered with a ship date of Nov. 1, and this e-mail says it's "on its way," so I'm not quite sure what's going on.

I suspect that, currently, over-exuberance is trumping stock levels to fulfill the level of enthusiasm.

I want to see a MicroSDHC slot instead of the SD slot.  MicroSDHC cards are ubiquitous these days and relatively cheap.  They don't hang off the edge of the card like the SD card does. 

I don't believe there is any inventory, at least in America.  They are back ordered for months.

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