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RS Components will open a dedicated online Raspberry Pi store
theinquirer.net ^ | Wed Mar 28 2012, 15:00 | Dave Neal

Posted on 03/28/2012 12:47:58 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

Devices will soon be available

ANYONE THAT HAS THOUGHT the Raspberry Pi is exciting in the last few weeks but is annoyed that they cannot get one can cool their jets, as the wait is almost over.

We have heard that the uncased early models are slightly delayed, and already sold out, but good news comes from RS Components.

The Pi Foundation blog has shared an email from RS Components about the hardware and its progress.

RS Components is making Raspberry Pi devices. It has updated them on its ordering systems and has plans for a dedicated online store.

"We will be opening up a bespoke Online Raspberry Pi Store for customers to order their Raspberry Pi Model B boards and all associated accessories," says an email from RS Components.

"The store will be opened up to customers who have registered with RS, in sequence, according to the time that they registered their interest with us. Our new Raspberry Pi Store has been designed to support private individuals wishing to purchase Raspberry Pi's and has a number of advantages for customers."

Building the store lets RS Components add more options for customers, such as the ability to buy the Pi using Paypal, Visa and Mastercard, and the ability to see prices in their local currency if that is pounds, euros or US dollars.

RS Components has suggested that it will have hardware available by the end of this month. However, talk about CE compliance testing has lead to fears about a delay. µ


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: hitech; linux; raspberrypi

1 posted on 03/28/2012 12:48:10 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: ShadowAce; Marine_Uncle; NormsRevenge; SunkenCiv; SierraWasp
Related thread:

Linux Fans Gorge on Raspberry Pi ($35 PC is a smash hit!)

2 posted on 03/28/2012 12:51:01 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The Global Warming HOAX is about Global Governance)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Raspberry Pi

An ARM GNU/Linux box for $25. Take a byte!

Main menu

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RS availability and purchasing info update


3 posted on 03/28/2012 12:53:04 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The Global Warming HOAX is about Global Governance)
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To: bigbob

fyi


4 posted on 03/28/2012 12:54:13 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The Global Warming HOAX is about Global Governance)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

For 25 bucks you could mount this in a keyboard with a mouse pad (I just happen to have one) and have a portable computer that could be connected to any monitor.

For that matter. You could take and gut an old laptop and mount it in there.


5 posted on 03/28/2012 1:03:18 PM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Pingeroo!


6 posted on 03/28/2012 1:05:30 PM PDT by Ignatz (Winner of a prestigious 1960 Y-chromosome award!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

DEATH TO OPTICAL DRIVES

I am hereby announcing my dislike for CDs and DVDs. Long live the rasberry Pi...and any and all other similar PCs that may follow.

Hmmm, does the rasberry Pi have an SD card reader slot?

btw, check this out:

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/tdk-flash-nand-ssd-solid-state,15131.html


7 posted on 03/28/2012 1:05:40 PM PDT by mamelukesabre
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To: Bigh4u2
Digging around:

FAQs

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Raspberry Pi model B

INTRODUCTION

What’s a Raspberry Pi?

The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It’s a capable little PC which can be used for many of the things that your desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and games. It also plays high-definition video. We want to see it being used by kids all over the world to learn programming.

Can I buy shares in the Raspberry Pi Foundation?

We’re a charity, so you can’t buy shares in the company. If you want to support us, we’d love you to buy one. We’ll also be offering a package where you can do a buy-one-give-one purchase, and we’ll be accepting donations too once we start shipping.

8 posted on 03/28/2012 1:09:42 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The Global Warming HOAX is about Global Governance)
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To: mamelukesabre
Oh Boy....The headline for your link:

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TDK has developed a single-chip SSD that is significantly smaller than previous similar products.


9 posted on 03/28/2012 1:12:39 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The Global Warming HOAX is about Global Governance)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

I’m excited about it. I am seeing one of those single chip SSDs being added to a rasberry pi-like PC in the very near future.

When I first read about it, I actually jumped out of my chair. I also like the idea of combining RAM, CPU, and GPU into a single chip, which is what they did with the rasberry pi. I wonder...do you happen to know where the BIOS chip is on a rasberry pi? Is that also combined with the CPU/GPU/RAM?


10 posted on 03/28/2012 1:17:19 PM PDT by mamelukesabre
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Interesting little package to be sure. As I type I am looking two feet to my left toward the floor where a large 133mhz server box that holds to scii bus hard disks with original Caldera Linux. Haven't fired up that beast in ten years. It is the last computer I have that contained some form of Linux or UNIX.
I dumped the crts I used to have hooked up to Linux hardware. I still think of the many years I used to eat and breath UNIX then Linux when it was first released to the world. The good old days for me. :)
11 posted on 03/28/2012 1:25:37 PM PDT by Marine_Uncle
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To: Bigh4u2

I bought a used Droid to use as a portable computer. It won’t connect to a monitor or keyboard, but some of the newer phones allow it.


12 posted on 03/28/2012 1:30:11 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: mamelukesabre
I am not up to speed on this at all.

My interest has been following Linux activity....and there is a lot of activity in low overhead verions of Linux Distros.

...for older computers....

And :

AMD targets embedded market with RTOS deal

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Published on 28th March 2012 by Gareth Halfacre

AMD has made clear its intentions to take on the likes of ARM, MIPS and Intel (naturally) in the lucrative market for embedded system processors, adding official support for one of the most popular real-time operating systems to its G-Series accelerated processing units.

Designed for use in embedded systems, including set-top boxes, gaming systems, information kiosks, point-of-sale systems and thin client terminals, AMD's G-Series is a low-power x86 offering which brings the flexibility of a desktop instruction set architecture to a market largely dominated by reduced instruction set chips (RISC) from the likes of ARM and MIPS.

It's a market in which AMD's long-time rival Intel is showing growing interest, positioning its x86-based Atom CE and related processors as flexible alternatives to the traditional RISC offerings from its competitors. Clearly, AMD isn't going to let Intel muscle in on a new market without a little dust-up.

Key to the success of any embedded processor is its support for a real-time operating system, or RTOS. Unlike a traditional operating system, an RTOS uses clever algorithms to ensure that tasks given to the processor complete in a highly predictable timescale with minimum variation, or 'jitter.' A task that takes ten microseconds to complete in an RTOS should always take ten microseconds, regardless of what the processor is doing at the time the request is made.

It's not a feature a desktop user requires, but it's absolutely vital for consideration in key embedded markets including industrial control systems, navigation systems, medical and military equipment. In these markets, raw performance isn't required - but reliability and predictability are an absolute necessity.

13 posted on 03/28/2012 1:31:41 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The Global Warming HOAX is about Global Governance)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Yeah. Saw that.

That’s a neat little machine.


14 posted on 03/28/2012 1:37:36 PM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: Moonman62

Where there’s a will, there’s a way.

I used to like to ‘tinker’ with things like that.

When I first became a HAM operator, I wanted a 6 meter rig, but couldn’t afford one.

Soooo.. I converted an old sideband CB to six...

Tinkering is fun.

:0)


15 posted on 03/28/2012 1:39:32 PM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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