29 Jun
2012
29 Jun
'12
1:05 a.m.
I was wondering if the Raspberry Pi might be used as a very lightweight xbmc fronted?..
George Rachor
george at rachors.com
On Jun 28, 2012, at 11:38 PM, Tothwolf wrote:
On Thu, 28 Jun 2012, Mark Benson wrote:
I don't talk much on here because most of the
time I am in awe of most
of you guys fixing things and sharing knowledge at levels I don't have
the tools or the talent to aspire to, and hays off it's awesome.
Fact is though, this thread is starting to have echoes of that guy at
HP that said he could only see a market for 5 computers at most.
I have a Raspberry Pi and run it 24/7 as an emulated VAX 3900 using
SimH. It does a damn good job of it too.
I work with a lot of embedded boards these days. Design wise, I rather like the Raspberry
Pi.
My single gripe with the project is their choice of Farnell/Newark as their retail
distributor. Newark as they are better known in the US has an enormous markup on parts and
materials and I've had so many bad experiences with them (including overnight shipping
not shipping out for 3-4 days on /multiple/ occasions) that I will simply not deal with
Farnell/Newark unless there is absolutely no way I can avoid doing so.
With my latest experience with Newark last year, they charged me $18 for a small heat
sink plus $20 for UPS ground shipping (that they -finally- shipped out about 5 days later)
PLUS local sales tax for an out of state purchase. All total, about $58.00 USD for a small
aluminum heat sink that was less than 1LB shipped. That part was for a rush repair job,
and I ate the cost, but I vowed to never deal with Newark again.
By the time Newark tacks on all their fees, that "inexpensive" Raspberry Pi is
no longer inexpensive by any definition. Until the Raspberry Pi is available via another
distributor, I will not buy one.