[BillingsLUG] [BozemanLUG] Raspberry Pi anyone?

[dan]

I don't see any potential discounts on the product but a bulk order sounds
good.  I'm pretty stoked about xbmc running so well on it!
On Jan 28, 2012 5:59 AM, "Scott Dowdle" <dowdle at montanalinux.org> wrote:

> Mike and Jeff,
>
> ----- Mike wrote -----
> > I was looking quickly over their site just to see what there is to
> > see, and it looks like there is no special process for becoming a
> > reseller. There's no bulk discount on the hardware, but it is less
> > expensive to ship if you buy in bulk. In short, to be a reseller,
> > buy a bunch of them and sell them to someone else. That's it.
>
> I wasn't expecting a discount really... because they are a non-profit
> selling them basically for cost.  I guess what I'm looking for is someone
> with some money... who could afford to buy a bunch of them... and then
> resell them... with a slight markup for the cost of processing.  If said
> person were using any profit to buy more boards... or give some of it to
> some free software related charity, mark it up even more.
>
> I'm not in a position to buy lots of boards.  I can afford 1 at $35
> though. :)
>
> ----- Jeff wrote -----
> > i've been playing with a http://pandaboard.org/ recently, it's a bit
> > more pricey at $185, but has OMAP4460 dual-core 1.2GHz with 1GB ram,
> > and runs android nice and fast.
>
> That definitely looks good too... but it's more out of my price range than
> the Raspberry Pi is.  So far I'm not that interested in running Android...
> and I still don't have cell phone much less a smart phone.  If someone
> wanted to give me an iPhone, I'd turn it down.  I wouldn't mind getting a
> cheap Android capable cell phone and I'd probably use it like an iPhone
> Touch (no cell service) and use it with WiFi.  A LUG guy in Missoula has
> been buying service cleared used Android phones on eBay, installing
> CyanogenMod on them, and then giving them to his girlfriend and family.  I
> wouldn't mind one of those.
>
> To me Android is way bloated... and that's coming from me as a KDE user.
> :)  But seriously, I haven't really used it at all so I'm really just
> pulling that opinion out of my butt.  Why do I think that?  Well, I've
> heard lots of people say it is slow... unless you get a dual-core
> processor.  I attribute that slowness, and poor battery life... to
> performance problems caused by using Java as the underlying platform.  But
> you know me, I'm not a programmer and I'm really just being irrational with
> that opinion... that isn't based on real benchmarks or data.  If I
> understand correctly most Android games are native binaries compiled from
> C++ code rather than using the Java-based stuff.  I wish more apps were
> native binaries.  I assume since game developers are doing it that way they
> must be getting better performance as a result.
>
> Thanks for the input!
>
> TYL,
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