Raspberry Pi Model A £18.88 inc VAT with Free Delivery at CPC
Best deal yet on this little baby. The Raspberry Pi is a credit card sized computer with thousands of possible uses.
For the hard of reading, for free delivery from Monday 4th to end of Friday 8th Feb [url=http://cpc.farnell.com/jsp/bespoke/bespoke2.jsp?bespokepage=cpc/en_CC/special_offers/rdrlp/webfree.jsp]read this[/url] which says:
[quote]"To take advantage of the free delivery / handling simply add WEBFREE as an order comment when
placing your order. Please note this offer is only available on UK deliveries."[/quote]
- digitaltoast
For the hard of reading, for free delivery from Monday 4th to end of Friday 8th Feb read this
http://cpc.farnell.com/jsp/bespoke/bespoke2.jsp?bespokepage=cpc/en_CC/special_offers/rdrlp/webfree.jsp
which says:
"To take advantage of the free delivery / handling simply add WEBFREE as an order comment when
placing your order. Please note this offer is only available on UK deliveries."
- digitaltoast
Quidco!
- jadrules
Top Comments (4)
Almost totally wrong except for the RAM spec. The model A is brand new, launched only today. Model A is lacking ethernet and only has one USB port and "consumes roughly a third of the power of the Model B".
Different things for different needs - if you want to build, for example, a low-cost solar-powered data-logger that you download from via USB every few days, then Model A is for you. If you want something like XBMC then Model B is yours. Of course, you can always plug a USB hub and USB ethernet adaptor into it and you'd pretty much have a Model B just with half the RAM.
But to say it's an "older" version is totally incorrect.
Edited By: digitaltoast on Feb 04, 2013 15:10: typo
Raspi FTW
i almost didn't order my model-b from yourselves as it does stink of bait'n'switch a bit - not that it is, but if i didn't know cpc i'd never have gone for it.
Well, in all honesty we'd never say it was a perfect system but unfortunately it's the only way we can make it work at the moment - Various options are being explored that will make it work cleaner in the future, but for now we're doing what we can...
Pretty sure that most of our customers would rather us put the offer on this way than not at all :)
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Almost totally wrong except for the RAM spec. The model A is brand new, launched only today. Model A is lacking ethernet and only has one USB port and "consumes roughly a third of the power of the Model B".
Different things for different needs - if you want to build, for example, a low-cost solar-powered data-logger that you download from via USB every few days, then Model A is for you. If you want something like XBMC then Model B is yours. Of course, you can always plug a USB hub and USB ethernet adaptor into it and you'd pretty much have a Model B just with half the RAM.
But to say it's an "older" version is totally incorrect.
Edited By: digitaltoast on Feb 04, 2013 15:10: typo
That is the killer for me. I have a model B running as a squeezebox server but wouldn't like to have to mess around trying to find a wifi adapter that works. These are cheap as chips though and probably better for use in schools and learning programming (like the Pi was originally designed for).
Thanks!
Depends on what you want to do. Its basically a mini computer with open GPIO pins.
The major OS(s) support most languages from the off or have libraries available.
The official forums and the MagPi publications should have more then enough information to get you started.
No, it doesn't use SATA it uses an SD Card.
Edited By: fishmaster on Feb 04, 2013 15:17
Almost totally wrong except for the RAM spec. The model A is brand new, launched only today. Model A is lacking ethernet and only has one USB port and "consumes roughly a third of the power of the Model B".
Different things for different needs - if you want to build, for example, a low-cost solar-powered data-logger that you download from via USB every few days, then Model A is for you. If you want something like XBMC then Model B is yours. Of course, you can always plug a USB hub and USB ethernet adaptor into it and you'd pretty much have a Model B just with half the RAM.
But to say it's an "older" version is totally incorrect.
The 'A' model *has* been around for ages; it used to be 128Mb but they upgraded it to 256 when the Model B got an upgrade. Ref here from last Feb.
I think this'll be the first time it's released in Europe though. Not 100% sure.
Edited By: warlockuk on Feb 04, 2013 15:29
None of those can run XBMC with hardware accelerated H264 afaik tho...
Almost totally wrong except for the RAM spec. The model A is brand new, launched only today. Model A is lacking ethernet and only has one USB port and "consumes roughly a third of the power of the Model B".
Different things for different needs - if you want to build, for example, a low-cost solar-powered data-logger that you download from via USB every few days, then Model A is for you. If you want something like XBMC then Model B is yours. Of course, you can always plug a USB hub and USB ethernet adaptor into it and you'd pretty much have a Model B just with half the RAM.
But to say it's an "older" version is totally incorrect.
The 'A' model *has* been around for ages; it used to be 128Mb but they upgraded it to 256 when the Model B got an upgrade. Ref here from last Feb.
I think this'll be the first time it's released in Europe though. Not 100% sure.
No, the model A has been talked about for ages, but only went into production last month. The foundation believed that Model B's would be more widely wanted due to built in Ethernet.
No, this is the first time the model A has been available for sale anywhere.
Source ? raspberry pi foundation themselves: http://RaspberryPi.org ;)
No, it doesn't use SATA it uses an SD Card.
You might want to have another go at editing that.
None of those can run XBMC with hardware accelerated H264 afaik tho...
A lot easier to get USA netflix running through them though.
Edited By: flaviafishcake on Feb 04, 2013 15:56