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Re: SL on ARM
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Konstantin Olchanski <[log in to unmask]>
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Konstantin Olchanski <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:33:45 -0700
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On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 11:02:41AM -0700, Christopher Tooley wrote:
> On 2012-03-26, at 10:08 AM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
> 
> >>>> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:38:31AM +0100, Gordan Bobic wrote:
> >>>> http://www.redsleeve.org/
> >> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 09:18:19AM -0700, Christopher Tooley wrote:
> >> http://www.raspberrypi.org/
> >> 
> > 
> > As I understand, the raspberry machine does not exist. As reported elsewhere,
> > the first batch of production boards was assembled with a wrong part
> > resulting in non-working ethernet. I did not see any reports of following
> > production batches (fully working or not).
> 
> 
> While no-one has yet received a pi, I doubt that it's vaporware ;)
>

"no-one received", "online videos", "founders are demonstrating", "preorder now" and "available soon" is the definition of vaporware.

One official vendor is:
http://www.element14.com/community/groups/raspberry-pi
read forum postings observe promised shipping dates in May-June.

Bottom line is I cannot buy it, you cannot buy it. (For "buy" == it's in my hands. Not some promise to mail it to me later).

K.O.




> There are copious RPi videos online demoing xbmc among other things, and the founders are routinely demonstrating pis running at various physical events (recently the Beeb@30 event).
> 
> > For those not familiar with this, it's an SBC built using a smart-phone ARM chipset.
> 
> Yep! more information here:
> http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs
> 
> "The SoC is a Broadcom BCM2835. This contains an ARM1176JZFS, with floating point, running at 700Mhz, and a Videocore 4 GPU. The GPU is capable of BluRay quality playback, using H.264 at 40MBits/s. It has a fast 3D core accessed using the supplied OpenGL ES2.0 and OpenVG libraries."
> 
> It is supposed to cost about $25 - $35.
> 
> I've pre-ordered one, but I doubt I will get one of the first batch. Apparently the 10000 they built sold out handily.
> 
> -Chris

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Konstantin Olchanski
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