Raspberry Pi announcement on Wed 29th Feb at 6am GMT

I'm really looking forward to these shipping. The combination of high-quality graphics and networking will make it easy to build lightweight graphic displays and integrations with other physical devices. I'm thinking an HDMI dongle for making displays like Panic built ( <a href="http://www.panic.com/blog/2010/03/the-panic-status-board/" rel="nofollow">http://www.panic.com/blog/2010/03/the-panic-status-board/</a> ) but self-contained and configured from the cloud.

2/29 is a good date. 3/14 would have been much more in tune with the Raspberry Pi name.

Does anyone know how they are planning to sell off the first batch?<p>If they do anything besides some manner of dutch auction they will be leaving a lot of money on the table for enterprising folks to pick up by reselling them on eBay.

The website is going to buckle under the pressure unfortunately :(<p>Really looking forward to getting my hands on one though, although I doubt I'll be quick enough to snap one up from the first batch

Curious - if the announcement is going to be "the store is now open" why don't they just say now "the store will be open on Wednesday at 6am?"