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I haven't received notice of delay until August- but in my order it does say August expected shipping date. I talked to Newark Canada and they said it was a typo and that mine will be sent as soon as they clear compliance. I'm hoping that means I'm in the first batch that passed testing and arrived today? I also bought a classic Game Boy which I hope to turn into the case for the Pi (not my idea, but still a good one). Post pics here when I receive stuff.
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eskro
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well it would make a great portable xbmc machine!
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I've also ordered my R Pi & am trying to gather ideas of how best to put a discount HTPC together. I'm intrigued by the idea of packing in an external drive along with the board in a case like Mick & BrendCH are mentioning. any other ideas would be welcome. Lets talk about how best to utilize this new hardware.
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lrusak
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I think people are jumping onto the RPi a bit too soon. It is still highly in development. All these people are buying one expecting to get it and install XBMC on it and away they go. It's just not there yet.
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Yes and no, even if you ordered a month ago it is still a long wait before you will receive it. Orders today are likely going to be even longer. There's a good chance, considering the pace of development for it, that they will be able to get it, install XBMC on it and away they go. However, there is a big chance it may never be able to run XBMC well or properly. For $35, it's worth the risk for me, especially since reading their forums I've come up with a few other things I may do with it if XBMC for it falls through.
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I have one currently and another one on the way.
XBMC is not my intended usage, but out of curiosity I chucked OpenELEC on it and it installs and runs just fine. Haven't found a video file it won't play yet.
While it does seem to play the majority of video I will say compared to my main XBMC box (HP Microserver / dual core turion w Nvidia GT210) unsurprisingly it doesn't really have the grunt to handle library stuff. The UI runs slowly and if you have a large library like I do, it will struggle. Possibly it might speed up a little with a faster SD card (the one I have is a class 6).
So I'd consider it for a secondary box if you weren't too worried about using library mode, otherwise spend a little more on something that will be more responsive.
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I just received my Raspberry Pi today, I'm not an expert in Linux, do you know of any resources for learning or guides so I can get OpenElec up and running on my Pi?
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Thanks again sraue, I tried to dd the image file, but I keep getting a 'resource busy' message.
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lrusak
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Try and unmount the volume first
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