Contents - Raspberry PI Community Projects

Q: The price for the RPi from Farnell verses the price from RS Components is
different, why?
Please see the following page for details about RS Components and Farnell global pricing
(http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/826) (13 March 2012).
Q: I've only been able to register my interest, what now?
Be patient, both distributors have said they will contact people when they have more
details (alternatively keep an eye on their sites for news).
RS Components, in particular have only taken people's details, and according to the
above press-release will wait until they receive their allocated 5,000 units.
Q: I registered on the Raspberry Pi Site's Mailing List but I didn't get an email
Unfortunately, the mail server had problems with sending out the 100K+ emails in time,
it is believed the email was often marked as spam by a lot of email systems so was
rejected or returned on-mass, or sent to Junk folders. Yes, this system should have been
tested, but the foundation were keen not to send unnecessary emails to people prior to
launch.
The email contained the same information about the announcement as was publicly
posted on the website (28th Feb 2012) before launch day, no additional or extra
information was given through the email.
Q: What shipping has happened?
Approximately 1600 units have been shipped to customers.
Some users are reporting (http://elinux.org/RPi_Shipping) their ordering and shipping
details.
Licensed Manufacture
The foundation has chosen to license manufacture of the RPi, which should provide
several advantages including:
1. The involvement of RS Components and Premier Farnell means that build
volume can be increased much, much faster than would have been possible
otherwise. Due to costs and working capital, the foundation would have been