Do yourself a favour and pay a couple of quid more and get it from a decent UK seller.

Ain't that the truth.

I ordered mine from flubit last Sunday (Using the Amazon.co.uk link) , and it was delivered on Tuesday
It costed £23.24.
I voted hot for the price, but take into account what other users mentioned: It will take weeks before you see this one being delivered as it comes from China. If you go down this route remember you can use TopCashBack (so probably Quidco too) for a further discount (Probably about 6% if Iremember well).

Im still waiting for my order of micro sd card readers.

Ok so long as you don't get hit for 20% VAT for items over £15 and post office collection fee

becomes £25 with exchange rate usd to pounds on paypal...

has anyone seen the single board computers coming out this year? they'll blow pi out the water!

Interesting kickstarter indieGO! All-in-One Retro Game Console (Raspberry Pi 2)

Do yourself a favour and pay a couple of quid more and get it from a decent UK seller.

I'm not sure if this makes much difference to the build quality but the gear best ones are manufacturerd in China, the CPC ones in the UK.

I ordered mine from flubit last Sunday (Using the Amazon.co.uk link) , and it was delivered on Tuesday
It costed £23.24.
I voted hot for the price, but take into account what other users mentioned: It will take weeks before you see this one being delivered as it comes from China. If you go down this route remember you can use TopCashBack (so probably Quidco too) for a further discount (Probably about 6% if Iremember well).

Do the Chinese ones still have a red board as they are not CE certified? Or has that changed with the new model?

That doesn't look very legal.

Farnell and RS both have the Pis made in Wales, but Farnell also have some made in China.

Owning an emulator is completely legal.
owning ROMs (i.e. a "copy" of a game) that you don't own the original of, however, is *not* legal.
It's a bit of a grey area though really, much like recording the top 40 off the radio on a casette back in the 80s.

For those looking to buy from Amazon, you might want to try Flubit. I got mine through them for £22.78 delivered when Amazon/Currys had it for £25.99.

Or very cheap

Someone posted an image in the reviews section.



You can see "Made in the UK" bottom left.

The emulators are legal, it's the ROMs/images which are questionable in legal terms.
As long as they aren't supplying it preloaded with ROMs/images then its perfectly legal.

I'd be wary about ordering from Gearbest. I ordered an Android media player just over a week ago which indicated shipping in 3-5 days. I paid for expedited delivery and insurance just to get it here quicker. As of last night, it was still listed as 'processing' and therefore I fired off an email enquiry to be then told that they have supply issues and expect to receive stock in 7-15 days. However, they are still indicating that they have stock of the device I ordered and you can still buy it from their site.

Just don't trust their stated delivery times.

Get this and use Kodiflix, it's a fantastic bit of kit

​im not talking about top trumps with numbers mate, I'm talking dual bootable octa core cheaper devices. I didn't post this comment to play top trumps I posted because I'm not up to speed with pi's programming and am genuinely interested in peoples opinions on future devices

Alternatively build your own.

https://shop.pimoroni.com/search?type=product&q=picade

(all out of stock at the moment :disappointed: )

Don't need any of that to build your own. Just install and emulator and pad.

Yeah you could or just build your own as mentioned by poopscoop, but i am interested to see where they go with this kickstarter


check this post out

For a lot of people who use the pi, the spec of future devices is *fairly* irrelevant - as androoski alluded to, its not about another machine with more cores or a fast USB, at a certain level the Pi will do all that a lot of people need it to. The exceptions to this are people who use it as an entertainment device (retro gaming or kodi or the like). For the rest of us, it is a a simple computer that can run dumb-little processes and entertain us - we don't need the extra speed in many cases what we do need is a stable OS and a community where we can get our questions answered, and thats what we get with teh pi - its just not guaranteed with any other supplier.

Surely if this sd card loaded with free open source emulators is sold then they also have to release any modifications to them the same way they got them, ie free.
The case is mini itx with a rpi/odroid sitting in it, the size of the case kinda defeats the purpose using a small board like rpi/odroid does it not.

In my experience the Chinese ones have black flaps instead of cream.

Ain't that the truth.

They have gone with the case to fit the rpi/odroid with a built-in DVD-RW drive so people can use their own disc software from Amiga CD32, Sony PlayStation, Sega Saturn*, Sega CD*, TurboGrafx* and more

As for the software, its all here

Would never buy anything from gearbest again. Nothing ever turns up! Customer services are impossible to deal with. If you actually want it buy it from a UK seller.

I don't get it, why are these so expensive vs a similar specced cheap phone that has a screen and battery plus all the other crap that comes with them.

Thought they were meant to be about a tenner each when they started?

seems pricy when it's really simple to setup a raspberry pie with retropie

Yeah, you can do that, but as I said before, I'm interested in where they take this with the software which they are investing in.