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Nice. Another nice board to run on is the Panda Board. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Boot_to_Gec...

It is a popular board at Mozilla to do development and testing on.

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I dunno, you can buy 5 $35 raspberry pis for the price of one $200 pandaboard. $200 approaches the territory of being plausibly enough to build or purchase a full PC.

I imagine the comment was aimed at those who already have pandaboards. It wasn't a salespitch.

I was quite disappointed in my RPi buying experience, living in the US. I'm still waiting for it to arrive (despite preordering the minute the sites came back online). They notified me that it was being shipped a couple weeks ago, told me that shipping would be about 12 weeks. The exchange rate threw me for a heck of a shock, with my RPi costing about $50 minus shipping.

The RPi might be the soup du jour, but it's an incredibly frustrating device to get your hands on. At least the Pandaboard can be placed in my hands; for all I know the RPi might not even exist at all.

Wow, where did you order yours?

I have 2 of them, one each from the 2 places taking preorders on day 1 and I wasn't first in line or anything. I got both of mine about the middle of June and they didn't cost any more than expected.

I got mine from RS, preordered the week it went on sale. My cousin ordered his a month later and got it last month. 12 week shipping to the midwest. Crazy.

I orderer from RS in the first week and got it months ago for a total cost of $41 including shipping to Israel.

The price difference is due to 35GBP = 55USD currently. To quote the email I received: "Delivery Type Desc Standard Delivery (Despatch expected within 12 week(s))"

Right, but the theoretical price of a pi is 35USD, not 35GBP.

Just checked several vendors listed on www.raspberrypi.org and none are available presently.

Have to agree... at $200, and AMD E-350 ITX board + 8GB of ram is cheaper, and more capable.

True. But you get what you pay for. The Raspberry Pi is extremely low end. Slow CPU, tiny bit of memory.

If that works for you then awesome.

However, if you want something that is more in line with today's mid to high end phones then the Pandaboard probably comes closer.

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