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freehunter
I ordered mine 8 months ago. It should be arriving sometime within the next 20 days. Longest wait to play Minecraft I've ever had.
RobotCaleb
Crazy. I didn't know there was still a backlog on it. I ordered two when it launched and have had both for months and months.
jyu
Probably depends more on the stocks of the resellers and where you are ordering from.
freehunter
Yeah, I bought mine from RS. They recently sent me an email saying the product was on the way, but no tracking number. I guess it will be a surprise.
Zenst
Hmm I was aware that when you get a product in USA and sell in the UK the conversion is to change the $ sign to a £ sign. But I have not seen it go the other way!

Can you realy purchase a Pi for $25?

freehunter
Can you purchase one? I don't believe so. Is one planned? Yes. Currently the only one on the market is the $35 option, but the $25 option is planned as a lower-spec version. Have a peek at their FAQs

http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs

With shipping and conversion rates, the price I actually paid when I ordered mine was around $45-$50 though.

orangethirty
I just wish they could scale their production. The Pi is great, but a waiting list of months is just crazy.
comlag
I ordered mine from http://www.newark.com/ and had it within 2 weeks.
npsimons
I ordered mine in April? May? It got here last Saturday. I'm not complaining (I've been busy with other stuff; I haven't even had a chance to play with it yet!), it's pretty awesome to think of this kind of power for so little cost, and it's like early Christmas :)