ZPavelZ: Looks really impressive. I have no idea how this thing could be useful to me nor do I think they will sell them here at the same price as they do, say, in US. So I will probably not be getting it in a forseeable future. However, who knows things may change.
Miaghstir: Raspberry Pi Foundation are British, though they mark prices in USD. Not that I know how that changes anything for availability in Russia.
I'll be getting a couple as soon as I realise they've become openly available rather than as a few test boards being auctioned out.
Deus_Ex: I wonder if in the future you could replace the CPU yourself? Would be nice to put a hummingbird there
Miaghstir: Not in the first edition at least, it's soldered on the board (not a ZIF socket as is the norm for AMD and Intel desktop CPU's), and it's probably quite a bit too small to desolder by yourself.
...at least, that's how I've understood what I've read.
The CPU/GPU chip is also a Broadcom proprietary thing that has little in common with the Hummingbird or the Mali GPU. They have little in common except the ARM instruction set. So not even if you have the facilities to solder BGA-style chips.
