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Our group just purchased 8 RPi units, not because we needed them now, but because we will need them in the future
Look whats happened in the last 12 months and imagine what will arrive in the next 12, can you imagine a quad core inteluino 3ghz blinking an LED, im joking of course, but thats the way things are heading, it seams every few months theres a new must have dev platform
By "future" I meant 4 - 6 weeks. The last batch of RPi's sold out before I could even get to the website. We have projects in the works that will use them, but we wont get full funding for the projects for 4 - 6 weeks, and didn't want to end up needing them and not having them.
The LED thing is funny. One of my friends mentioned that he plans to use his Pi to make an RFID lock for his gun rack. I think my response was something like "I could have built you a $5 Arduino on a Breadboard to do that."
Although I shouldn't say anything, I have a dedicated server with 16gb of ram, 1.5TB hard drive, and dual 2.4ghz Xenon quad-core CPUs. It serves one website, that gets ~50 unique hits per day. I could probably replace it with an Arduino + ethernet shield.