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I was wondering if there is any store in Lebanon that sells raspberry pi 3 ?

and I heard there are two versions, one made in UK and other in china. which one is better? And some people say that there is no difference, it is just the packaging in UK ?

Also, do you recommend any other boards than Raspberry pi and with community support?

Thank you :)
15 days later
Hey sorry for the late reply but haven't been here for a while now. Aside from Katranji (a.k.a EKT), you can also find it at CNC Lab . As far as I know, CNC Lab always keeps the board and kits in stock.

As for alternatives for the Raspberry Pi, there's apparently the Orange Pi board but not a large community behind that. If you want a board with several shield boards to compliment it, give Arduino a shot. Also there are the boards issued by Sparkfun which can be integrated into any project revolving around Arduino or Raspberry Pi. As for community support, there are a lot of web support on the product pages as well as alot of tech blogs. But if you want physical support here in Lebanon, you can get that via our very own hackerspace Lamba Labs . We dedicate Wednesday nights fro 7pm to 10pm to Build Nights, so come by sometime and check us out :)
Katranji ones are outdated , I ordered the last model from Amazon.
10 months later
Hoping my message will help someone in 2018,

I have purchased 2 Raspberry Pi 3 model B online
one from Element 14 ( Made in UK )
and the other from RS Online ( Made in China )

At first glance the design is pretty the same, but the quality is somewhat different from one another.

The UK version runs normally, the Chinese version crashes (turns off) after a few minutes of usage.
I have read in some forums that this was a bad "batch", but in my opinion ... Getting the UK version is better and it will only cost you about 10 $ more than the Chinese version

As for the Stores,

EKT got some new Raspberry Pi's, CNC too
Beirutronics got some too,

Kanafani & Boujikian doesn't have any Raspberry Pi.
The Pi by default is running on a high clock and eventually it will eventually turn off. Running it at 1.1GHz or 1GHz should fix your problem.