RPi with 512mb Memory?

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.

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.