Interesting to read all of your replies. I have heard about BeagleBone for a while but never researched it much, until yesterday as I am looking for an open source hardware platform for ethical reasons. I now think BeagleBone is an awesome project and community.
I now also understand how the BeagleBone pricing is fair. So I guess let me rephrase what I have said: I wish there would be something between the X15 and the Black edition, something akin to the Odroid C2 or XU4 in term of processing power and memory. The X15 is providing way more power and options than I need and the Black edition has too little memory for my needs (it would be to run an Ethereum node on Debian, comfortably). Cheers, On Sunday, February 28, 2016 at 3:50:49 AM UTC+1, john3909 wrote: > > Yep, I agree with William. It looks like this is a direct competitor to > the Raspberry Pi 2, providing similar I/O capabilities. From what I can > see, this processor is targeted at the TV set top box. I was surprised to > see the performance of the board is just 2x that of the RasPi2. Considering > this is a 2GHz Quad 64Bit core, I would have expected the performance to be > at least 8x. Another disappointment is the USB2.0 ports and not USB3.0 > ports. From what I recall, the CortexA53 is designed for low power, not > high performance like the CortexA57. > > Anyway, the x15 is way more versatile, given SATA, PCIe, USB3.0, Dual DSP, > Dual CortexM4, Quad PRU, etc. > > Regards, > John > > > > > On Feb 27, 2016, at 2:59 PM, William Hermans <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > *I really want to wait for the X15 but the price seems so crazy high >> compared to the upcoming Odroid C2 >> (http://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=135&t=18683 >> <http://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=135&t=18683>)...* > > > The two mentioned platforms are not even remotely comparable. The X15 is a > true embedded platform, where the ODROID pretends to be an embedded > platform 40 pins + 7 . . . whatever that is supposed to mean. > > On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 3:25 PM, Brice Buronfosse <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> I really want to wait for the X15 but the price seems so crazy high >> compared to the upcoming Odroid C2 ( >> http://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=135&t=18683)... >> >> -- >> 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] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > -- > 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] <javascript:>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- 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.
