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The Pi has been a great show in the perils of poor supply chain management. I woke up early on release day to try and get one, failed, continued to fail for qui
by polshaw 14y ago
The Pi has been a great show in the perils of poor supply chain management. I woke up early on release day to try and get one, failed, continued to fail for quite a while, and never ordered one.
It would cost me, in the UK, £29.50, and take '5 weeks'. For £39, and a little quicker, i can get the all-winner a10 based MK802, which has;
* a much more powerful 1Ghz+ A8 processor
* a much more powerful GPU (mali 400)
* much more memory (1GB vs 256MB)
* wifi
* a case
The pi surely has it's niche still (gpio, community), and to be fair to the crew, their aims have always been separate from ours-- aimed at education and not hackers. And it did start all this. But IMO, at least until they can get the model A out at lower cost, there is little attractive about it today for someone looking for a tiny arm computer.
Interestingly, if they had used kickstarter (or just taken pre-orders) they would have been able to get manufacturing off at 100K+ quantities, and wouldn't have had these problems.
- DanWaterworth 14y agoThey are UK based, so kickstarter isn't necessarily an option.
- glimcat 14y agoThe MK802 looks interesting. But in the USA, it's showing as $99 versus the Raspberry Pi's $35. https://www.miniand.com/ https://www.miniand.com/ My main interest in the Pi is that it represents a newish class of computing devices which are cheap enough to treat as ad-hoc embedded computers. The MK802 looks interesting, but it doesn't seem to fall into that category. Even the Pi is still towards the high end of what I'm hoping to see.
- polshaw 14y ago$35 is just the headline price, there is shipping on top of that (taxes?). MK802 shipped @ $60[1]. So is +$20 worth that? (plus, the wait was 12 weeks when i checked a us retailer for pi) 1. http://ipadalternative.com/101-mini-pocket-pc-android-linux-2160p-hdmi-out-10ghz-flash-103.html http://ipadalternative.com/101-mini-pocket-pc-android-linux-... no doubt elsewhere + ebay, too. E: sorry, i quoted the 512MB ram version's price, can't edit earlier post. still twice rPi.
- squidi 14y agoSeveral Kickstarters have badly struggled to meet their phenomenal demand - see the comments for those waiting for Elevation Docks: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hop/elevation-dock-the-best-dock-for-iphone/comments http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hop/elevation-dock-the-b...
- napierzaza 14y agoDoes no-one know about the Beagle Board and Beagle Bone? I am in Canada and know people who ended up paying about 80$ for the Pi with all the shipping and other charges. Not really the price they advertise