On 2017-11-22 12:16 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
Often the Microsoft store is a good place to buy these. And it has free shipping.
<https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/store/d/raspberry-pi-3-bundle/8pq0whg388d2>
$74.99, including official enclosure, power supply, and a possibly slow 16G SD card with NOOBS.
That's not a bad price at all, though it's a limited time special. A bit surprised they don't include their Windows 10 for IoT instead of Linux. The card's a Class 10/UHS-1, so as fast as is useful on a Raspberry Pi. The official branded NOOBS cards are either Transcend or AData; I don't have one here to check.
Speaking of which, finding the best SD card for the Raspberry Pi seems to involve more lore than I've penetrated.
This is partly due to search engines favouring old results, and there were a lot of unknowns. Pretty much everything to do with Raspberry Pis on the web that's older than 2016 is *wrong*: misleading, non-optimal, or actually non-functioning. Sandisk Ultra µSDHCs are my choice, along with the official cards as a close second. We got the first card returned faulty that I know of this week, and we sell a lot. Things that affect SD reliability in a Raspberry Pi: * power supply. Get a dedicated one. The phone charger + cable combo that everyone used to use is just too unreliable. * power hygiene. A Raspberry Pi doesn't have much in the way of ride-through for small power glitches. Also, don't just yank the power cord. There are numerous options for reset/shutdown buttons, of which this is my humble contribution to the genre: https://github.com/scruss/shutdown_button * card mount. There have been several designs of card holder on the Raspberry Pi, and some have been quite unreliable. The push-to-eject on the 2B that I have is a bit finicky. * card quality. There are many hard to detect forgeries. Check card capabilities with F3. If you have to use NOOBS, format the card with the SD Association's SDFormatter (Windows and Mac only, I'm afraid) first. * image writing. Use Etcher, as the Foundation have sometimes packaged distributions that cause dd's default options to write a bad filesystem. Etcher is huge and graphical but just works. cheers, Stewart