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.