The GbE variant seems like it would be fairly useful, except that it only
has one GbE port ( really need two to be useful ). Unless all you need is a
USB2.0 to GbE bridge . . .


On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 11:28 PM, Jesse Cobra <jesseco...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Unless the volume pricing is really cheap, I just don't get it...
> On Jun 17, 2014 11:10 PM, "Maxim Podbereznyy" <lisar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> So from the article "The BlueSteel-Basic is available for pre-order now
>> at $55" and the full version is $55 at Digikey. What's the point? :)
>> Moreover does removing a couple of chips make this board industrial
>> friendly?
>>
>> "The IT version offers an industrial temperature range of -40 to 100°C" -
>> who wrote this bullshit? There aren't any ICs at the market that can accept
>> such temperature :)
>>
>> This COM is a BBB clone and really tested and qualified for industrial
>> applications!
>> http://www.mentorel.com/product/usomiq-am335x/
>>
>>
>>
>> 2014-06-18 9:19 GMT+04:00 William Hermans <yyrk...@gmail.com>:
>>
>>> From what I could gather from the article, these are embest ./ element14
>>> boards. Kind of hard to read through as one part of the article seems like
>>> it's implying one thing, where in another it seems to go another direction.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 10:16 PM, John Syn <john3...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>  From: William Hermans <yyrk...@gmail.com>
>>>> Reply-To: "beagleboard@googlegroups.com" <beagleboard@googlegroups.com>
>>>> Date: Tuesday, June 17, 2014 at 9:17 PM
>>>> To: "beagleboard@googlegroups.com" <beagleboard@googlegroups.com>
>>>> Subject: Re: [beagleboard] BeagleBoard SBC Goes OEM, COM Version Coming
>>>>
>>>> Funny how these articles always seem to report stuff that's either
>>>> incorrect or not entirely accurate.
>>>>
>>>> I think the overlying information given by the site is nice to know (
>>>> such as new hardware being released ), but their actual write-ups are
>>>> nothing more than FUD. The article you linked to had several points of
>>>> misinformation, such as the BBB's processor speed ( but somehow they
>>>> managed to get it right in the table of board differences ).
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, the board sound interesting, but personally I think they went
>>>> the wrong direction in removing the eMMC. and am pretty sure it can be
>>>> disabled via device tree overlays if additional IO's are needed ( which
>>>> really wont give you many back anyway.).HDMI on the other hand, I'd never
>>>> miss.
>>>>
>>>> Looks like the same board as the BBB with the eMMC and HDMI chips not
>>>> populated. I’m sure Gerald & circuitco have analyzed the market requirement
>>>> and this is what the market wants. If you have the numbers, I’m sure they
>>>> will manufacture a batch with the eMMC populated or you could always add it
>>>> yourself.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Don't even get me started with "Angstrom is prefered by most / more
>>>> professional developers . . ." Because that is plain B.S.  Also the
>>>> statement "Moving to the more user friendly Debian
>>>>  . . ." Is fairly hilarious. Mainly because many long time users of
>>>> other distro's seem to have a hard time grasping the concepts of a more
>>>> traditional Linux distro like Debian. For the record though this statement
>>>> is accurate as Debian actually has real / proper documentation. Where
>>>> Angstrom falls flat on its face
>>>>
>>>> I could go on, and on, but the fact is that "real professionals" are
>>>> going  to use what makes the most sense for their project. If they want
>>>> small, Angstrom is probably the last thing in their minds. QNX, or Busybox
>>>> on a microkernel come to mind far ahead of anything else.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 6:44 PM, John Syn <john3...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.linux.com/news/embedded-mobile/mobile-linux/777154-beaglebone-sbc-goes-oem-com-version-coming
>>>>>
>>>>> Interesting how we are the last to know about this!
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> John
>>>>>
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