Hello Evan,<div><br></div><div>As <span></span><br><br>Em sábado, 18 de maio de 2013, Nicholas escreveu:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Evan,<br>
<br>
If you live in Toronto, I highly recommend buying your Raspberry Pi at<br>
Creatron, at College & Spadina. It'll cost you $5-10 more than ordering<br>
from a distributor, but it's worth it to not have to deal with shipping<br>
(which will cost you anyway). Also: instant gratification!<br>
<br>
If you want to run your Pi as a media system, you should look into<br>
buying Codec licenses from <a href="http://raspberrypi.org" target="_blank">raspberrypi.org</a> -- this will activate the<br>
hardware video decoding acceleration for smooth video. Also, try to use<br>
the audio-over-HDMI capability for a home theatre system -- the<br>
audio-out jack doesn't have much in the way of an amplifier on that<br>
circuit, so if you use it instead of HDMI-audio you may need a pre-amp.<br>
<br>
As for cases, we at Hacklab.to have been laser-cutting cases out of<br>
acrylic, using a design created by AdaFruit. Scott Sullivan has been<br>
awesome with this, and has produced most of the cases that are now<br>
adorning RP's around the lab. If you drop him a line (<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'scott-lxSQFCZeNF4@public.gmane.org')">scott-lxSQFCZeNF4@public.gmane.org</a>),<br>
assuming he has some available he might be willing to part with a case<br>
or two for a small sum to cover his time/cost, or a couple of beers.<br>
Scott offered to cut a case for me when I bought an RP and it turned out<br>
*great*, so hopefully he still produces them.<br>
<br>
There are also commercial cases available from lots of hobby electronics<br>
places (including Creatron), so you should hunt around. I like the<br>
AdaFruit case best, but the Pibow (<br>
<a href="http://shop.pimoroni.com/products/pibow" target="_blank">http://shop.pimoroni.com/products/pibow</a> ) is a pretty gorgeous second<br>
choice.<br>
<br>
With regards to KDE... eh, maybe. I kind of doubt it. Mine runs a<br>
lightweight window manager and kind of strains to keep up with anything<br>
that needs heavy computing power, or is graphics intensive. But you<br>
should experiment and find out! Maybe someone has already proved me<br>
wrong? Worst case scenario is that you yank out the SD card and dd a<br>
new Raspbian image to it.<br>
<br>
Which reminds me -- you'll want an SD card. I got a high speed Phillips<br>
16GB SD card from Fortune Computers (also at College & Spadina) for $10.<br>
It does a pretty good job.<br>
<br>
--Nicholas<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
On 18/05/13 12:40 AM, Evan Leibovitch wrote:<br>
> Hi all.<br>
><br>
> OK, you've convinced me. I wanna get a Raspberry Pi. Maybe more than<br>
> one. Probably to play around with, but maybe ultimately as a home<br>
> theatre client running Rasplex.<br>
><br>
> Now ... about procurement...<br>
><br>
> The two sites that are the direct sellers -- Newark and Allied -- both<br>
> appear to make you create an account before they'll tell you shipping<br>
> costs. What are they? Is one suppier clearly better than the other? Is<br>
> there any clear advantage to multiple people pooling into one order?<br>
><br>
> (I'm looking to get a Model B)<br>
><br>
> Is the system fast enough to run KDE?<br>
><br>
> And finally ... what are people doing for cases?<br>
><br>
> Thanks!<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Evan Leibovitch<br>
> Toronto Canada<br>
><br>
> Em: evan at telly dot org<br>
> Sk: evanleibovitch<br>
> Tw: el56<br>
><br>
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