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 ;) 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