Not a slice, I want the whole Raspberry Pi ...

[fatality_uk]

Okay. Done a bit more research. It can run from a micro USB power supply, something I'd never heard of. Live and learn.

Next question to all: When viewing Youtube vids, etc, I am presuming you are booted into the OS and using Firefox (or other browser) to do this? So you could view any vid site? Is it capable of simple things like email?

I'm going to order one tonight when I get some cash, screw the wait! (How many more sleeps???).

Hey, and great to read all the feedback, cheers. Now I'm salivating. Sounds like it does pretty much what I expected and, oddly, that happens to be exactly what I am after for the first time ever.

Quick reminder folks. Your RPI WONT, REPEAT WONT play flash videos through a browser. Not to say it will never happen but it wont out the box. In fact I think Liz, Eben and the RPI team have said they aren't actively looking into it as the PI has very little memory, Flash would chew it up before it began.

You can install something like XMBC for RPI and then install the YouTube add in. This works a treat and can play YT videos at 1080p without skipping a beat. Interface is a bit clunky for casual YT surfing through

[pe7er]

Raspbmc - http://www.raspbmc.com/ is lighter than XBMC and has an "easier" gui installer. The XMBC remote for Android also works well.

Thanks for sharing!
I installed OpenELEC (it wasn't available for the RP, so I compiled it from source. Took 6 hours... and I found a binary somewhere later ).
OpenELEC looks nice, but I have some problems with .mov & .iso files (haven't really dig into that yet).

The XBMC Remote works well indeed, but it drains the battery of my Android as it needs wifi...

[Balthazar54]

When I ordered one, they did not have any of the clear cases in stock, and the other ones did not interest me.

Then today, cnet had a diy article on carving out a book and turning it into a cell phone charging station, and the rusty old wheels started to turn.

Turning an old paperback, or better yet a small hard cover book about the size of a paperback book, into a Raspberry Pi case might be a fun project for those times I'm sitting around bored.

Let's see, glue the page edges together with some paste and a brush should make that fairly fast. Use a box cutter to hollow it out and cut some holes for ports will take quite a bit longer.

Building a harness to bring more than one or two sides of the card's ports to the book edges might be overkill, but then I get pretty bored sometimes.

I don't know yet what the cooling requirements are, if any.

And the book would have to have the right title.

I wish my order would get here! About 10 weeks left on the up to 12 weeks delivery time left...

[bmeakings]

I ordered mine on the 6th of June, along with a case, power lead and an 8GB SD Card with Debian pre-loaded. The total came up to around £50. I'm still eagerly waiting.

I don't have any grand plans for it, just to replace my print/web server - an old desktop PC with a Pentium 4. I managed to get its power consumption down to about 60W idle by using a mobile P4 chip at 1.6 GHz and installing a single 512MB stick of RAM. With the RbPi the power draw should be negligable.

[Balthazar54]

Ordered a 2nd one from Newark, it got here this week after about a one month delay. Got a message from the English company I first ordered from, and who already charged my card, that it could be up to another 12 weeks for that one.

Now I have a system I can totally thrash around it, and just have to flash the sd card if I mess it up too much. And it runs faster off the sd than I would have thought.

[CharlesA]

It looks like I have another month to wait for this stupid thing (plus shipping time). I just canceled my order from RS and will deal without.

The "thrill" of messing with a new low power PC has worn off and I doubt I'd even have time to mess with it. The unexpected delays put me off even more.

Maybe I will get one when the demand levels out or something.

[Cheesemill]

It looks like I have another month to wait for this stupid thing (plus shipping time). I just canceled my order from RS and will deal without.

The "thrill" of messing with a new low power PC has worn off and I doubt I'd even have time to mess with it. The unexpected delays put me off even more.

Maybe I will get one when the demand levels out or something.

If you order from Farnell you should recieve your Pi in about 3 days, I ordered my 2nd Pi on the 4th Sep and it arrived on the 7th.

[CharlesA]

If you order from Farnell you should recieve your Pi in about 3 days, I ordered my 2nd Pi on the 4th Sep and it arrived on the 7th.

Wow. They must have added more shops since visited the Raspberry Pi site.

Thanks.

[Bucky Ball]

Thought I'd throw some Lego in the pie and stir the pot:

http://arstechnica.com/information-t...1#comments-bar

[Cheesemill]

A quick update, the Raspberry Pi has now been upgraded to 512MB RAM for the same price. It just keeps getting better and better.

http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2180

CPC have them in stock for next day delivery if you're in the UK.