Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/15/raspberry_pi_memory_doubled/
Jam today: Raspberry Pi Ram doubled
All boards now ship with 512MB
Posted in Hardware, 15th October 2012 09:42 GMT
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The Raspberry Pi Foundation has upgraded its credit card-sized computer [1]: it now sports 512MB of memory rather than 256MB, but still costs $35 (£22).
Foundation founder Eben Upton promised that anyone who has an outstanding order will receive the upgraded board.
“Units should start arriving in customers’ hands today, and we will be making a firmware upgrade available in the next couple of days to enable access to the additional memory,” he pledged.
That may come as small consolation to the many would-be Pi owner still awaiting kit from RS Components - one of the Foundation’s two board supply partners; the other is Premier Farnell’s Element 14 - after placing orders with the company as early as June [2]. Folk who ordered kit more recently have received their Pis.
RS has yet to respond to out request for a clarification of the order backlog situation. If you have an outstanding order, perhaps cancelling it and re-ordering would be the sensible way forward. ®