On Mon, 8 Sep 2014, Robert Nelson wrote: > On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 12:46 PM, Robert P. J. Day <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Mon, 8 Sep 2014, Gerald Coley wrote: > > > >> Unless the distributors order boards, we do not build boards. We > >> don't get orders but rarely every now and then. Lead time is about > >> 12 weeks. We cannot build one or two boards. If we did it would cost > >> about $500 board. We need a large order to make it worth doing. > > > > i'm curious ... given the regularity with which people ask for a BB > > xM, what exactly is the appeal of that board? are there not newer > > boards that bring the same features to the table? > > I know there's a few users who built their end product around the > xM's.. (as it's still cheaper then a few of the som's available for > the dm3730)
so one appeal is just historical precedent. as for the other, last year, i bought a zoom dm3730 dev kit: http://www.logicpd.com/products/system-on-modules/zoom-dm3730-torpedo/ is it safe to say that with this board, i really don't have any pressing need to keep my xM around? strictly from a technical view, i mean. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
