So Raspbian is installed on the SD card and the SD card is in the card slot, what's next?
Before booting the Raspberry Pi for the first time, make sure you've got a keyboard and mouse plugged in and connected the monitor to the HDMI port.
Once you are ready, connect the power via the micro USB socket and it will boot up.
The Raspberry Pi doesn't come with a hard drive, instead it boots from an SD card. In order to install the operating system on the SD card you need to do what's known as flashing the SD card. To create a Raspbian SD card on a Windows system follow these instructions.
I've received my Raspberry Pi last week so thought I'd upload some photos of it...
I finally received an email on Friday to say my Raspberry Pi had been dispatched, so hopefully only a few days before it gets delivered.
The order process for the Raspberry Pi hasn't been the best...