[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Plans

[Alan Bell]

On 07/03/12 13:28, Liam Proven wrote:
> Hey, it's a hella cool toy for £15 (standalone model) or £25 (with 
> LAN). They sold out the initial production run in about 3min, at 6AM, 
> and there have been 7 orders a second ever since. 
it is cool, and I have one on order, but I do have to pick on this "7 
orders a second ever since" thing. That would be 420/minute or 25,200 
per hour or 604,800 per day, which just isn't happening. What is going 
on is someone said something like: "the initial 10,000 sold out in about 
25 minutes!!" (which I don't believe - the sites were not able to 
process the orders fast enough, took all morning to recover, I very much 
doubt they could do 7 orders/second) which someone else calculated as 
about 7 a second, and then someone else reported this as a sustained 
ongoing order rate of 7 a second.

They are taking a lot of pre-orders and the initial batch did sell out 
quick, but lets get the back of an envelope calculations within the 
bounds of possibility.

Alan.

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