I managed to officially express an interest at Farnell as soon as their website became useable again, and I put an order in about 5 minutes after I received their email inviting me to actually purchase one.

I'm quite looking forward to having a fiddle around with it. It's certainly more capable than previous embedded boards I've tinkered with in the past. About 6 months ago I had considered a Beagleboard to stick in the car. But the fact the Pi was so much smaller and cheaper, while still retaining much of the useful features, I thought it would probably be a better bet.

Sorry for sounding off in my previous post, the Raspberry Pi seems to have really attracted a lot of very self righteous wankers. It certainly goes to prove the "Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory".