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There's only 10,000 units in this batch. I'm guessing it will be sold out in an hour or two.

I'm under the impression that you can only purchase 1 per person (or per transaction?). So group and bulk buys are out of the question. 10,000 units might last a bit longer than 1-2 hours, but only time will tell.

Just wait a couple of months and you'll probably be able to pick one up on the cheap from people looking to offload something sitting around. These are a lot less powerful and have a lot fewer connectivity options, unless you want to do some soldering, then people are believing. It also doesn't help that the main selling point (accelerated graphics) will be shipping as a binary blob.

These ... have a lot fewer connectivity options, unless you want to do some soldering, then people are believing

There are always a plethora of USB NIC's.

Me, I just want a cheap low power mailserver. Perhaps if XBMC works well enough, there's that too.

I didn't mean things like NICs. Instead I was talking about sensors and such.

This might be what you need: http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/411

The Raspberry Pi is not targeting the Arduino's use case.

Instead the Raspberry Pi is supposed to be an incredibly cheap computer and for that the only sensor you need is a usb keyboard.

> These are a lot less powerful...

Er... so what do YOU recommend we buy for around $35 instead?

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