The first batch of Raspberry Pi computer units is near completion and will be available for purchase by the end of this February for just $35.
Want a $35 computer? Good news, your dreams are about to become reality! After a delayed release date, the low-cost USB computer units are finally leaving factories on February 20 and will be available on the market by the end of the month.
The Raspberry Pi Foundation team announced yesterday that since production began last month, manufacturing teams faced a short setback when they ran into problems sourcing a specific model of quartz crystal package.
“The quartz crystal package we had chosen when we thought we were manufacturing in the UK is readily available over here in Europe, and was the cheapest we could find,” the Foundation’s official blog said. “But it turns out that in China, that crystal package has been overtaken in price and size by a smaller, cheaper one, so the one we’d designed for has been a bit hard to find.”
The team has since been able to source the crystals and the first batch of units are expected to ship to the United Kingdom by the 20th for final inspections before hitting the consumer market by this month’s end. As we’ve previously reported, users can anticipate the $35 Model B version of the tiny PCs from this first
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