Originally shared by Vladimir Pantelic
…modern interfaces like USB3, PCle, eSATA and dual gigabit Ethernet provide high-bandwidth connectivity to off-the-shelf storage, communications and imaging peripherals…
SATA!!!
http://beagleboard.org/blog/2015-10-14-beagleboard-x15/
Again IVAHD and again PowerVR SGX544… Cry the developer, no way out from this paradise of bugs
Now, if they can keep the price down on this a bit, it might put them back in the limelight on things. (Kind of hard to have thunder when you’ve got NVidia on the high end and Raspberry PI and others stealing it on the low… This is a nice board. If they can price it in the $50-100 range, it’ll be compelling for a lot of things.)
@Andy_Panda The problem is that’s the junk TI’s coupling with the Sitaras. (There’s a reason they lost on the OMAP front, even though they’re the ones that basically started the whole smartphone space… They kept with crap that wasn’t workable.)
@Frank_Earl For a first look it looks like a PandaBoard5, even a location of some key components looks very similar. That board with no connectivity costed about 350$, I believe this one will cost no less…
Which, if that’s the case, it’s not compelling. A Jetson’s more capable for less money.
@Frank_Earl
Could not agree with you here, as far as I remember OMAP3 was very successful SoC. And vice versa, OMAP4 was brought up to a market too late, and even in that time the SoC software was so buggy… I guess the hardware was simply overdesigned 
@Frank_Earl Well, I believe that the target developers group is just different. This board has 2xA15, 2xM4, ?xPRUICSS, 2xC66x… Jetsot simply could not provide such a “dsp power”
DSP it could do with GPGPU in spades. PRU stuff? You can do that with a 'Bone out of box. If you’re needing it $35-55 gets you there out of box. $300+'s just pricey- and there’s a broad range of boards as good or better in that price range.
Sorry…If they’re pricing it close to the TK1 board, then they have something to start as a discussion. $200. More just has only really fanboys or dedicated engineers as it’s priced in the low eval-board range. BeagleBoard’s been more about Makers than anything else…and that price there isn’t it.
Right, I agree with you. But this board/kit does not looks like a kit for enthusiast(really, why u need 2xC66 dsp???), rather it looks like professional tool for enterprise/industrial development and, of course, in such a case price just not important…
Yeah…but is it a BeagleBoard then? That’s the point of all of this. BB’s have been about being inexpensive awesome for the Community…this doesn’t quite fit the bill.
@Frank_Earl Beagle>>BONE<< was cheap and simple, beagleBOARD as well as official TI AM3xxx dev kit was and is quite expencive, even now beagleBOARD costs more then 120$ (it is 720Mhz A8 + 256DDR, now it is so legacy…)
@Drew_Fustini_pdp7 Img Video Acceleration
@Andy_Panda The BeagleBoard was also part of the Cheap awesome- when it first came out it was the cheapest play of them all and I should know, I bought one. $300+ is not the same thing… Sorry, you can keep at this all day and you’d still be apologizing for a board that shouldn’t be priced the way it is.
We are about making technology accessible, and that means affordable. Seeed BBG helped to bring overall prices lower. X15 is about taking the high-end again. We think it has compelling connectivity and processing power at a reasonable price for the capability. The proof of the making is in the tasting. Long-term availability and a mainline push are also key differences from us and others.
@Jason_Kridner $250 or less is the sweet spot for the high end- based on what I just recently read, the board’s in it. That was where my concern was with this- that it be overpriced. (With suppositions of $320 and above, it was that… What good does it do anyone, yourselves included, if you ended up in the price points everyone in this thread kept talking to? At those prices, it wasn’t a community board anymore…) Since we both know that’s not going to be the case, you’re dead on with the rest of it. At ~$250, you’ve got a win with the rough right mix of function and connectivity.