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Raspberry Pi
curaga:
Heh, the Via APC preorder sold out within a day. Well, at least they're still saying that volume availability is in July, let's see if that slips too like the Pi.
hiro:
--- Quote from: spence91 on June 12, 2012, 05:01:28 AM ---As long as the pi has driven the *ridiculous* price of these boards/small ARM|x86 pc's down then it's done us all a huge favor.
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Strange, my first small ARM (a Seagate dockstar) was pretty cheap years ago. Bought it for 20 Euros.
Also I bought a toshiba ac100 for 100 Euros used.
All that the pi people have been doing so far is talking. They certainly didn't produce high enough volumes to bring any prices down.
spence91:
--- Quote from: hiro on June 12, 2012, 09:23:22 AM ---
--- Quote from: spence91 on June 12, 2012, 05:01:28 AM ---As long as the pi has driven the *ridiculous* price of these boards/small ARM|x86 pc's down then it's done us all a huge favor.
--- End quote ---
Strange, my first small ARM (a Seagate dockstar) was pretty cheap years ago. Bought it for 20 Euros.
Also I bought a toshiba ac100 for 100 Euros used.
All that the pi people have been doing so far is talking. They certainly didn't produce high enough volumes to bring any prices down.
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You're adept at finding a bargain, but you'll have to admit that the RRP of both those products are nowhere near that of the PI. I'm not familair with the dockstar but a quick Google suggests the RRP is something like £66? And the AC100 was an eye-watering £300 when you could get EEEpc's for less.
Remember also that the PI foundation is a non-profit charitable organisation who's purpose is to provide cheap hardware for educational purposes. They had to get the boards printed in China because it would have sent the price up getting them printed in the UK, which is probably the reason for the delay in shipping. Before the PI it was hard to find something so capable for £20.
Now that it's been released VIA have released a small, cheap and capable board at a similar price and hopefully others will knock down their prices too.
hiro:
my point is that good will aside there are other things more important for a successful product. they are around, competition stays around and I'm positive we'll get even more useful devices in the future :D
spence91:
...So I tried initially just to rip out the kernal from a debian distro that was already available and then roll up the basic utils and then all the scripts from an x86 version of TCL core.gz... err, that didn't work so well.
Has there been any discussion about rolling out a core.gz from scratch? Obviously because it's a different arch I can't just add to core.gz, and the source directories don't have any makefiles or scripts that I can look at.....
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