Is the Raspberry Pi real at that price?

Don McKenzie · 2012-03-02T19:32:18+00:00

Is the Raspberry Pi real at that price?I can't help but think when you sell 10K pieces of an item at bargain basementprices, (and in a single day), and in advance of having the products, that there may be something very wrong.They have entered into licensed manufacture partnerships with two Britishcompanies, Premier Farnell and RS Components.That means there has to be a dealer margin. If you can retail it at $25, thenhow much did it cost wholesale?I may be barking up the wrong tree, but am I one of the few sensing somethingmay be very wrong with this deal?Have a look at what Tsvetan from Olimex said in a forum thread about it here:Anyone have insider information that what I am saying is completely off the mark?Comments?Of course, If I am off the mark, this will be more free advertising for them. :-)Cheers Don...========================-- Don McKenzieDontronics: DuinoMite the PIC32 $35 Basic Computer-MicroController add a VGA monitor or TV, and PS2 Keyboard.Arduino Shield, Programmed in Basic, or C.

Mar 02, 2012 145 Replies

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Joel Koltner 14 years ago

It could be, although I wouldn't bet any money that Win8-ARM will be able to take a program in IDL format, compile it, and run it; I'd wager you'll have to go back to the original source file in C# or VB.net or whatever and generate a new IDL.

In fact, I seem to recall that they won't be supporting the old Win32 API on the ARM implementation at all -- only the new "Metro" API. But I could be wrong about that...

---Joel

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JW 14 years ago

You know so little. Why do you work so hard at proving it?

*YAWN*

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JW 14 years ago

Nope. Guess again.

Afflictions?

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Pomegranate Bastard 14 years ago

Wishful thinking, I fear. Nice thought, though!

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Rene 14 years ago

The crisis did come about because of "financial products" that were completely intransparant. It is not software but the mechanism of not really knowing what is going on (apart from a small group that did and made huge money from it) is indeed quite comparable.

Rene

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