On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 13:14 -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: > On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 3:57 AM, Koen Kooi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Op 22 aug 2008, om 02:29 heeft David Farning het volgende geschreven: > > > >> Welcome to the Sugar on the BeagleBoard project. It seems that we have > >> all of the pieces in place to do a port. > > Very good. Thank you. > > I see that BeagleBoards list at $149. Do you have any idea of quantity > pricing? Apparently TI sells them only through Digikey, which only > gives single-unit prices on its site. I can see applications for data > acquisition and control worldwide, as well as for teaching embedded > systems development. I am thinking of possibilities for placement of > systems through microfinance, assuming that we can find and document > ways to increase income using BeagleBoard+Sugar more efficiently than > by other methods.
The BeagleBoard is a development platform for introducing developers to the OMAP35x family of processors. I don't believe that it was meant for endusers. The interesting question I my mind is, 'Who will be the first to leverage the chipset into low cost thin clients or laptops for use classrooms?' thanks dfarning _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar