Raspberry Pi 3 Model B for $50 at Newegg.ca
While shopping at Newegg.ca, I found <https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813300007&cm_sp=Homepage_FDD-_-P3_13-300-007-_-11212017> -- William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca>
On 2017-11-21 11:51 PM, William Park via talk wrote:
While shopping at Newegg.ca, I found <https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813300007&cm_sp=Homepage_FDD-_-P3_13-300-007-_-11212017>
That sounds like a regular price. Nothing special there. -- Cheers! Kevin. http://www.ve3syb.ca/ |"Nerds make the shiny things that distract Owner of Elecraft K2 #2172 | the mouth-breathers, and that's why we're | powerful!" #include <disclaimer/favourite> | --Chris Hardwick
On Nov 22, 2017 03:00, "Kevin Cozens via talk" <talk@gtalug.org> wrote: On 2017-11-21 11:51 PM, William Park via talk wrote:
While shopping at Newegg.ca, I found <https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E1681330 0007&cm_sp=Homepage_FDD-_-P3_13-300-007-_-11212017>
That sounds like a regular price. Nothing special there. Yes, it is. They also ship them from the States. Elmwood has the Raspberry Pi 3 + power supply for $59.99, with local pickup available in Bloor West Village: https://elmwoodelectronics.ca/collections/raspberry-pi/products/raspberry-pi... Newegg are charging $20+ for the power supply. (Disclosure: I work for Elmwood ) Stewart
On Wed, 22 Nov 2017 08:59:15 -0500 Stewart Russell via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On Nov 22, 2017 03:00, "Kevin Cozens via talk" <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On 2017-11-21 11:51 PM, William Park via talk wrote:
While shopping at Newegg.ca, I found <https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E1681330 0007&cm_sp=Homepage_FDD-_-P3_13-300-007-_-11212017>
That sounds like a regular price. Nothing special there. Yes, it is. They also ship them from the States.
Elmwood has the Raspberry Pi 3 + power supply for $59.99, with local pickup available in Bloor West Village:
I also like creatroninc.com , with a store in the College/Spadina area. I didn't see a Pi 0 W on their site, but they are an AdaFruit distributor. Mel.
| From: William Park via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | | While shopping at Newegg.ca, I found | <https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813300007&cm_sp=Homepage_FDD-_-P3_13-300-007-_-11212017> 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. A week or two ago, this was $60, but I think that was a price error. Speaking of which, finding the best SD card for the Raspberry Pi seems to involve more lore than I've penetrated.
Speaking of Pi's.. How about a good source in the GTA that doesn't charge for a Pi Zero Wireless as much as a Pi3? On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 12:16 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk < talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
| From: William Park via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | | While shopping at Newegg.ca, I found | <https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813300007&cm_sp= Homepage_FDD-_-P3_13-300-007-_-11212017>
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.
A week or two ago, this was $60, but I think that was a price error.
Speaking of which, finding the best SD card for the Raspberry Pi seems to involve more lore than I've penetrated. --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
On Nov 22, 2017 12:40 PM, "Digiital aka David via talk" <talk@gtalug.org> wrote: Speaking of Pi's.. How about a good source in the GTA that doesn't charge for a Pi Zero Wireless as much as a Pi3? There are no official Raspberry Pi resellers in the GTA, so we're all limited to buying one Raspberry Pi Zero W per order from our suppliers then reselling them. We can buy and resell as many Raspberry Pi Zero W kits as we want, though. Elmwood sometimes has one in stock, and we sell them pretty much at cost. Availability is down to our suppliers and the whims of the Foundation. Cheers Stewart
On 2017-11-22 12:40 PM, Digiital aka David via talk wrote:
Speaking of Pi's.. How about a good source in the GTA that doesn't charge for a Pi Zero Wireless as much as a Pi3?
I had to get my Zero's from Adafruit. The price per unit was ok. The problem I have with them is the shipping cost. :P -- Cheers! Kevin. http://www.ve3syb.ca/ |"Nerds make the shiny things that distract Owner of Elecraft K2 #2172 | the mouth-breathers, and that's why we're | powerful!" #include <disclaimer/favourite> | --Chris Hardwick
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
On Nov 22, 2017 9:38 PM, "Stewart C. Russell" <scruss@gmail.com> wrote: 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. They're Transcend, packaged by Element14, with a pretty logo stencilled on them. The one we got back as a return doesn't have the logo on it, so I think someone did a switcheroo on us. Stewart
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