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Jealous! Very!


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It's not yet available, has no case (or a standard form factor to easily get one), so EFIKA MX still has some advantages :-)

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PostPosted: Fri May 28, 2010 7:59 am 
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And here is the next generation of Beagle Board. They added a faster CPU, and what is more important: Ethernet and USB ports. For more info, see:
http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/BeagleBoardxM/
very interesting. at first glance that mysterious DM3730 appears to be yet another member of the OMAP3 family, perhaps an upgrade to the 3530?


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It will be available on June 7, cost only $180,
and runs at 1GHz! 200MHz more than EFIKA MX.

TI > Freescale.


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You have to consider that the Beagleboard is most likely a lot subsidized/discounted by TI for advertisement of their plattform.
I think they make no profit with this board so of course it can be made a lot cheaper.


The Efika MX is also shipped with internal WiFi + Antennas, internal 4GB Flash, two SD Card Slots and a nice case + internal Speaker. The Beagleboard does not even have the RTC Backup Battery soldered on board by default.

Just to note the obvious differences that may make up the price difference ;-)


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The Efika MX is also shipped with internal WiFi + Antennas, internal 4GB Flash, two SD Card Slots and a nice case + internal Speaker. The Beagleboard does not even have the RTC Backup Battery soldered on board by default.

Just to note the obvious differences that may make up the price difference ;-)
Also, just read sth that I did not really like. The SD slot was replaced with a micro SD slot. Good luck finding fast and cheap microSD cards of a reasonable size. Having compared SD and flash performance on the efikamx directly, I can safely say that I prefer internal flash anytime...


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i wonder if this one will have a working hdmi with audio.


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Freescale also announced a quite capable ARM CPU: http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News ... le-iMX535/ or http://www.freescale.com/imx535 It has SATA (instead of just ATA), full HD (instead of 720), 2GB RAM size limit (instead of 512MB). I'm looking forward for an EFIKA MX utilizing it :-)

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TI's new ARM SoC is not also official, not just a leak on beagleboard.org, see: http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News ... 7x/?kc=rss A basic chip arrives now and a more capable one in the fall.

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