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nitrogen
I look forward to one day getting my hands on an Rpi. That is, if Allied ever ships the board I ordered ages ago (the page I ordered from no longer exists on their site).

Seriously, with all this RasPi news, does anybody in the US actually have one?

shanselman
I've got three and they are great. Using one for AirPlay and XBMC and the others for random stuff.

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/Top10RaspberryPiMythsAndTruths...

nitrogen
How/where/when did you get them?
gagege
Sounds like your order fell through. Someone I know just ordered one and got it a week and a half later. That was list about two weeks ago.

You might want to get in touch with them.

yitchelle
Did your credit card get charged? If not, just sent through another order? It probably got lost in the ether.
rufugee
Ordered two from Element14 around four weeks ago. Received them two weeks ago...so not bad.
shanselman
I got them from Element14 here http://www.element14.com and got them about a month(?) later.
nitrogen
In the United States, Element14 redirects to Newark. Their ordering process, like Allied's, is, shall we say, somewhat less than pleasant. Here's hoping that the RPi actually arrives this time. It would be nice if the Raspberry Pi foundation used a more consumer-friendly distributor, like Via's APC being distributed by Newegg.
luriel
As much as I love the idea of the Raspberry Pi, until it has open video drivers it can't really be considered an open platform.

Anyone knows what is the status of that?

reefab
It'll probably never happen, from what I've gathered, even Broadcom doesn't have all the specs for the GPU.
lunarscape
There's also the hardware to consider. They posted a PDF of the schematics but no files or layout. They've promised to eventually but I haven't seen it yet.