Raspberry Pi 2 Model B surprise launch, local pricing

[P924]

Just ordered a few. RS even gave me a discount...

 

[Praeses]

Considering RSes huge markups , I will wait till china gets it and get it from there instead....

RS's pi boards are built in the UK afaik, so might be better quality

 

[gregmcc]

Yip - all build in the UK. Ordered mine - delivery tomorrow

 

[morkhans]

Can't wait to see OpenELEC running on this

 

[CeeBee]

http://dev.windows.com/en-us/featured/raspberrypi2support
We’re excited to announce that we are expanding our Windows Developer Program for IoT by delivering a version of Windows 10 that supports Raspberry Pi 2. This release of Windows 10 will be free for the Maker community through the Windows Developer Program for IoT.

 

[Totempole]

Anyone with one of the older model doing anything useful with it? I have one of the original Model B, and after playing around with it for a bit, I decided it was a nifty toy, but not really very practical for anything in the real world.

This new version, on the other hand...

I bought 2 generic USB Dual Shock Gamepads, and turned mine into a RetroPie gaming console. Plays ATARI, NES, Gameboy, Gameboy Color, SNES, SEGA Genesis and Master System games nicely .

 

[herbertk]

I bought 2 generic USB Dual Shock Gamepads, and turned mine into a RetroPie gaming console. Plays ATARI, NES, Gameboy, Gameboy Color, SNES, SEGA Genesis and Master System games nicely .

This /\ is what I will do with my current one... and put RaspBMC on the new one

 

[Praeses]

https://osmc.tv/2015/02/raspberry-pi-2-released-with-osmc-support/

Anybody tried OSMC before? Looks like it's already available for the Pi 2

 

[Coasti]

/subscribes to thread!

 

[ThinkCentre]

Great! Looking to buy one!

 

[Progenix Oj101]

Subscribing, that price is quite delicious

 

[Tinuva]

Just out of interest sake. MyBB and the RS-Online website lists the RPi 2 as R446.86 ex vat.
After doing my actual order, the price changed to R418.60 ex vat.
So the actual price with vat is below R500, or R477.21 to be exact.

 

[reactor_sa]

Only 800mhz... Would rather go for Amazon fire TV with 1.6ghz quad core snapdragon

 

[ToxicBunny]

Only 800mhz... Would rather go for Amazon fire TV with 1.6ghz quad core snapdragon

Can you buy an Amazon FireTV for R500?

 

[kayvee]

Can you buy an Amazon FireTV for R500?

That besides, there's more to Pi life than TV

 

[dualmeister]

The $35 PC I'd rather have

 

[soliton]

My current Raspberry pi is power enough to be a web and VPN server, this one will be like a beast in comparison! Very tempting with this price...

 

[reactor_sa]

Can you buy an Amazon FireTV for R500?

Can you OC your pi to 1.7ghz?
How about Bluetooth, WiFi, 2gb ram, and double the gpu power?
Out the box remote?

Pi is 450excl vat, plus 180excl vat for case, 110excl for power supply, +whatever for microsd.

So is it still a straight cut win for pi?

 

[HideInLight]

How exactly do you power it? What kind of power supply do you use?
Can you use a generic cellphone charger?

 

[bdt]

The $35 PC I'd rather have

So I'm not the only one that caught the ref to the ODROID-C1...