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Offline dammy

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Re: Raspberry PI
« Reply #134 from previous page: March 03, 2012, 05:30:44 PM »
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BUT, for the cost of an efika, you could have a pretty sweet morphOS box, if you could afford the keyboard, mouse and monitor for it...


What, an eMac?
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Re: Raspberry PI
« Reply #135 on: March 03, 2012, 06:18:03 PM »
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In that case I apologise Iggy.  I would agree that the Efika  is pointless :)

You guys did confuse me for a moment there.
I actual find the Pi rather appealing.

I just think Genesi's offering is a little weak when I can buy a PandaBoard for only a little more and A15 based systems ought to be coming on line soon.
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Re: Raspberry PI
« Reply #136 on: March 03, 2012, 06:19:34 PM »
I must admit I find the whining about the performance of the Pi on a forum where a large number of members still stick to hardware with CPUs where double digit MIPS values are considered fast...

It's not like people here don't know and understand that you can actually do a lot of fun stuff with *really* slow hardware.

Especially when the cost of the Pi is practically a rounding error compared to a what a lot of people here regularly spend on hardware...

Someone who complains about the speed of the Pi just instantly demonstrate that they don't get the point of it.
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Re: Raspberry PI
« Reply #137 on: March 03, 2012, 07:27:45 PM »
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What, an eMac?


Well, according to the conventional wisdom, it would be 111 euros for the MorphOS license, 100 bucks or so for the Mac to run it, then a couple hundred dollars for the keyboard, mouse and monitor.
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Re: Raspberry PI
« Reply #138 on: March 03, 2012, 07:38:15 PM »
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I must admit I find the whining about the performance of the Pi on a forum where a large number of members still stick to hardware with CPUs where double digit MIPS values are considered fast...

Exactly! :-)

You would think we'd be supremely aware of the waste in the "higher numbers mean better" fallacy...

And not just retro...
I have a 400Mhz Nokia 770 tiny tablet...
My wife got me an 800Mhz Android tablet recently..

Both are crazy fun, for different things...
But frequently, the 770 is faster and more responsive than the 800Mhz tablet..
Why, Android....
It has some great benefits (remember, I think the tablet is great), but Android has some serious overhead...

So, I can imagine the Pi, with a stripped down Linux running really fast, even given it's specs....

My only complaint (I've mentioned a few times) is that it doesn't do RGB, so I can't use it as a MAME device in my cabinet (I have a real arcade monitor)..

And, to be honest, I think it probably won't help education...

I think it could..  I just think it won't..  Knowing the system nowadays, it won't be adopted widely enough and/or they'll choose all the wrong software..
Yeah, I'm cynical..  ;-)

But I think the Pi can be a success, just not the way they intend it to be..
Hobbiest and embedded market...
Higher education even...  Prepping for embedded system careers..
But K-12, I have my doubts...

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Re: Raspberry PI
« Reply #139 on: March 04, 2012, 02:52:10 AM »
Just got my order in for a Model B on Element14. Really hoping to see some prods appear on Pouet.net for it in the coming months!
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Re: Raspberry PI
« Reply #140 on: March 06, 2012, 12:38:46 PM »
had an email this morning from farnell.  Delivery date of my PI moved from 14/04 to 14/05 :(
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Re: Raspberry PI
« Reply #141 on: March 06, 2012, 12:42:08 PM »
Me too, this is complete FAIL!

And the foundation is to blame too, they can't just say: "oh it's up to them now..." Bah!

Have you already paid? Have they taken your money?
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Re: Raspberry PI
« Reply #142 on: March 06, 2012, 01:25:54 PM »
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had an email this morning from farnell.  Delivery date of my PI moved from 14/04 to 14/05 :(

Yeah, I just received an email from Newark (Premier Farnell) stating my expected ship date in now 6/12 from 4/5.  Crap!  Well, I have many projects on going, I just shall keep myself busy with them for the time being. :)

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Re: Raspberry PI
« Reply #143 on: March 06, 2012, 02:10:36 PM »
Wow, a seven month delay.  At least it's close to Christmas....

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Yeah, I just received an email from Newark (Premier Farnell) stating my expected ship date in now 6/12 from 4/5.  Crap!  Well, I have many projects on going, I just shall keep myself busy with them for the time being. :)

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Re: Raspberry PI
« Reply #144 on: March 06, 2012, 02:24:31 PM »
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Wow, a seven month delay.  At least it's close to Christmas....


June 12th?
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Re: Raspberry PI
« Reply #145 on: March 06, 2012, 02:50:04 PM »
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Wow, a seven month delay.  At least it's close to Christmas....

Yeah, it took me a second as well, and I'm from 'Merica :lol:

EDIT - I'm on the RS list to hopefully maybe get one from the UK, otherwise I'm on the Allied list here in the states for whenever they may end up getting them.

EDITx2:  Check Here about those later dates:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/764

Looks to have been a mistake.
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Re: Raspberry PI
« Reply #146 on: March 06, 2012, 02:55:33 PM »
According to the new delay, I think I'll not have mine before 1 ou 2 years!?!?: :(

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Re: Raspberry PI
« Reply #147 on: March 06, 2012, 04:23:54 PM »
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Wow, a seven month delay.  At least it's close to Christmas....

Actually, new ship date of June 12th, from an April 5th original ship date.  I knew these boards would be hot and all the hype would grow interest to a frenzy when they did become available.  It will just give me more time to ponder some uses.  I'm currently working on my own touch screen home theater remote with its own GUI, using a Parallax Propeller, should see how this could convert over.

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Re: Raspberry PI
« Reply #148 on: March 06, 2012, 04:39:40 PM »
The Raspbery Pi is too popular... It won't be properly available until the end of the year for sure :(
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Re: Raspberry PI
« Reply #149 on: March 06, 2012, 05:09:06 PM »
Definately want one, but I'll wait til the frenzy dies down a bit.
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