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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02/02/raspberry_pi_model_2/
What do you think?

Looks like a nice piece of gear. 

I have the one before the B got it from crazy guy to run Minera.

One of the downfalls with multiple models of Pi is they lose their 'one hardware one software' advantage. Adoption of the B+ has been slow as people realised that they couldn't have unified firmware over the models. The same will happen here.

I think this is an amazing new addition to the Raspberry family, especially because of the extra RAM. I've had situations where RAM memory was simply maxed out... And yes, this will probably be the new miners king. You can attach enough miners to it, it still runs on low power, more powerful than previous generations, you can even run a Bitcoin or several altcoin nodes in it... Just amazing :)

And these guys from the Raspberry Foundation probably just found another cash cow, haha :)

The biggest plus from my perspective is that the usb and ethernet data now have separate data channels as it appears with the adoption of the cortex-a7 it added a enet controller (this should lead to better usb throughout and better stability for hardware connections

And from my understanding the gpio header is the same pinout as b+ etc so I'll be grabbing two( one to play around with, the other to upgrade my bitfury 450G rig

good thing is 4 core cpu
it will allow finally putting pi as decent www/file server

i cant wait to get one

Higher CPU power, more RAM, more compatibility (even Windows 10 !) and thats still for 35$. What I miss the most is some high speed comunication on GPIO. Like quad SPI @ 25MHz, that would allow to communicate with many, many, many TH miners and put those 4 cores to useful work ;)

EDIT: LOL, 3 hours ago there was over 700pcs in stock @ Farnell. Now it's 0!

I have used the older model to run 3.5Th and the CPU had some headroom, I would assume these new ones really open things up..

where i can order it now ?

I was reading it on TechCrunch - http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/02/raspberry-pi-2/

I wonder how can it help in Bitcoin mining anyway ? Am I missing something ?

Pis are great for smaller units but they can be maxed out on larger units with many more chips. And by maxed out I mean have a narrower working difficulty range.

http://www.rs-components.com/index.html maybe you will find it here.

RPi is very popular in mining space. It serves as low power computer (<5W) to run mining software and control miners.

You can also order it from here https://www.modmypi.com/shop/raspberry-pi-2-model-b-new

They seem to have it stock, they're trustful and accept Bitcoin :)

And some premium price, not to big, but shipping cost are 50% of that price :(

Yes, and there is VAT too. And apparently they don't give the cheaper non-tracked option anymore... But it's a good option if you don't want to wait much longer :)

wow that is a great piece of hardware.  im ordering one for my media setup :-)

I ordered two.  Looks like a great bit of kit.