On 7 March 2012 14:41, Alan Bell <alan.b...@libertus.co.uk> wrote: > On 07/03/12 13:28, Liam Proven wrote: >> >> Hey, it's a hella cool toy for £15 (standalone model) or £25 (with LAN). >> They sold out the initial production run in about 3min, at 6AM, and there >> have been 7 orders a second ever since. > > it is cool, and I have one on order, but I do have to pick on this "7 orders > a second ever since" thing. That would be 420/minute or 25,200 per hour or > 604,800 per day, which just isn't happening. What is going on is someone > said something like: "the initial 10,000 sold out in about 25 minutes!!" > (which I don't believe - the sites were not able to process the orders fast > enough, took all morning to recover, I very much doubt they could do 7 > orders/second) which someone else calculated as about 7 a second, and then > someone else reported this as a sustained ongoing order rate of 7 a second. > > They are taking a lot of pre-orders and the initial batch did sell out > quick, but lets get the back of an envelope calculations within the bounds > of possibility.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=raspberry+pi+700+second I scaled it down 2 orders of magnitude to something I find a bit more plausible. At £25, yes, I can believe they have a million-odd preorders. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
