Cloudane wrote:I love how people have been calling Farnell and RS "Slashdotted" - when the yesterday's-news-tomorrow site itself hasn't even gotten around to the story yet...
should we update the generic term to boingboinged?
I think HUKD'd might be more appropriate in this instance. The scalping cunts on HotUKDeals caught wind of it, promoted up to insane level of buzz as a "PC for £22" and went nuts on it.
Rhythm wrote:I think HUKD'd might be more appropriate in this instance. The scalping cunts on HotUKDeals caught wind of it, promoted up to insane level of buzz as a "PC for £22" and went nuts on it.
Someone over there has a sense of humour though...
6 x Raspberry PIes (with added Apple) for a quid! @ Asda
For those who miss out on the £22 ones, you get 6 of these for a quid, and the best bit is, you'll know what to do with them! And for those who won't buy the £22 one cos it's not an iPhone - this is the deal for you, it's got Apple in it too!
Also - these are wireless. No need for messy wires, works straight out of the box, and even comes with a shiny silver case!
Rhythm wrote:I think HUKD'd might be more appropriate in this instance. The scalping cunts on HotUKDeals caught wind of it, promoted up to insane level of buzz as a "PC for £22" and went nuts on it.
Ah, bugger. So all the "hurr durr cheap stuff" crowd will get them, whinge like hell that they don't run Windows 7 and Farmville as well as they'd like or that they can't figure them out, and they'd go to waste and get an arrow to the reputation :/
adam wrote:i doubt it'll take long for rs & farnell to ramp production up though
yeah, and judging by the amount of interest today, i bet their first order will be in the region of 100000 units for their next batch (or as many as they can get as fast as they can get them)... hence the 3 week estimate for the batch of units i am supposedly in
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I eventually got a pre-prder in at Farnell also with a March 26th estimated delivery. Oh well. I can't even see how people managed to navigate the Farnell site at 6AM to complete an order. It was down from 6AM dead. Even rasberrypi.org and .com were intermittant 500/502ing for a while before serving static pages.
Bah, I 'spose it was marginally worth getting up early to see RS and Farnell being DDOS'ed out of existence...
Couldn't even get onto the Farnell website until well after lunch, though. Neither could my colleagues who were trying to order components!
The bright spot was seeing the launch of Raspberry Pi being the number one most read story on the entire BBC news website this morning. That was cool.
"I am a very considerate person. If I want to go out all night on my miniature golf course and shoot lizards, well, no reason to keep the neighbours awake..."
I'm hoping it becomes some sort of huge hit that people make great things out of and talk about in 20 years
As then I can be that 50 year old guy going "ahhhh lad I remember when the very first ones came out, getting up at 05:45 and watching it melt the internet! I was THERE!"
..... or more likely, it'll be a passing thing that fades out in a couple of years. But one can dream
