Time for Pi

[John Martin]

On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 12:40 AM, Evan Leibovitch <evan-ieNeDk6JonTYtjvyW6yDsg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> OK, you've convinced me. I wanna get a Raspberry Pi. Maybe more than one.
> Probably to play around with, but maybe ultimately as a home theatre client
> running Rasplex.
>
> Now ... about procurement...
>
> The two sites that are the direct sellers -- Newark and Allied -- both
> appear to make you create an account before they'll tell you shipping costs.
> What are they? Is one suppier clearly better than the other? Is there any
> clear advantage to multiple people pooling into one order?
>
> (I'm looking to get a Model B)
>
> Is the system fast enough to run KDE?
>
> And finally ... what are people doing for cases?
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Evan Leibovitch

I bought mine from Newark. If I remember, the cost with tax and
shipping was $53.11 so the shipping would have been $12. I think it
was Purolator.

Don't know about KDE. The recommended desktop is LXDE. These are not
powerful processors. The new, 512 MB ones may be better. The default
split between processor and video on the old ones was 128 + 128 MB.

Good luck.


John
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