From today you'll be able to order one for just £22 (excluding VAT) - although if the demand is as high as anticipated, it's more likely you'll be on the end of a (very long) waiting list.

Costs are kept down because, according to Dr Upton, there's a lot of goodwill toward the non-profit project. The software is (free) open-source, chip manufacturers have kept their prices low, and all members of the charitable Raspberry Pi Foundation have given their time (and in some cases substantial amounts of money) for free.

I'm holding out for when it comes with a case, then I'll be all over the Model B like flies on poop

The network streaming/xbmc support is great and it's stupidly low power (<5v (don't know the ampere)) yet does 1080p airplay video

Make your own case.

The Raspberry Pi is an ARM-based, SoC (system on a chip) computer that is just slightly too large to fit in an Altoids tin

I've never heard of this project before, but looks like a fantastic way to get involved in programming, especially for kids. I'm assuming it has no built-in storage, so do you load an OS and files onto an SD Card or USB HDD, yes?

From what I've seen it has an embedded Linux variant, so it's not a dumb box when you plug it in. It comes with some software to let you get on and learn programming and stuff, too.

It's no use to me. I can't code for toffee, never have been able to either. But for kids, well, let's see what they can come up with!

I’m not sure if it has embedded Linux or whether you have to create a bootable drive on an HD card.

Cases. Hmm. Steam Punk cases for Raspberry Pi. Aren't they going to ship with cases anyway?

Sign me up for a Steampunk case for one

I feel I should say right now I have no intention of producing cases of any description for Raspberry Pi.

Just a brief think about the costs of materials would make them prohibitively expensive to produce, completely out of proportion to the cost of the electronics to go in them.

Sorry to disappoint.

How they do it I don't know, but my knowledge comes from this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17190334

Features
Broadcom BCM2835 700MHz ARM1176JZFS processor with FPU and Videocore 4 GPU
GPU provides Open GL ES 2.0, hardware-accelerated OpenVG, and 1080p30 H.264 high-profile decode
GPU is capable of 1Gpixel/s, 1.5Gtexel/s or 24GFLOPs with texture filtering and DMA infrastructure
256MB RAM
Boots from SD card, running the Fedora version of Linux
10/100 BaseT Ethernet socket
HDMI socket
USB 2.0 socket
RCA video socket
SD card socket
Powered from microUSB socket
3.5mm audio out jack
Header footprint for camera connection
Size: 85.6 x 53.98 x 17mm