New BeagleBoard-X15 announced

in hardware on 2014-11-13 13:20 (#2V1H)

Following closely on the new Raspberry Pi A+ announcement from yesterday, the new BeagleBoard-X15 has been announced:
http://linuxgizmos.com/beagleboard-x15-features-dual-core-cortex-a15-sitara/

The device has decent specs: 2x 1.5GHz Cortex-A15, 2GB RAM, 4GB eMMC, eSATA port, 2xGigBit Ethernet, 3xUSB 3.0 ports, 1xHDMI.

From the site:

The original BeagleBoard pretty much single-handedly started the trend of open-spec Linux SBCs supported by hacking communities. It helped inspire the Raspberry Pi and dozens of other hacker boards. It had appeared that the BeagleBoard line would continue to fade into legacy as BeagleBoard.org focused on the BeagleBone, but the brand has come roaring back to life.

eLinux.org says it is hosting the official wiki for the device, and will offer more details in the coming weeks. The X15 is in beta and will ship from BeagleBoard.org and its hardware partners in late February, says ELinux.

No price has been announced yet.

Beagleboard before Raspberry Pi, really? (Score: 1)

by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-11-13 13:36 (#2V1N)

Does anyone have any insight into whether the BB really predates the RaspberryPi? That was a surprise to me.

Re: Beagleboard before Raspberry Pi, really? (Score: 3, Informative)

by axsdenied@pipedot.org on 2014-11-13 14:35 (#2V1S)

I was surprised as well.

According to Wikipedia the release date of the original Beagleboard was July 28 2008. Raspberry Pi was released in February 2012.
RasPi came almost four years later!!!

I think that lots of people (including me) didn't hear about the BB until after the release of the RasPi. Hence the wrong assumption.

Re: Beagleboard before Raspberry Pi, really? (Score: 4, Informative)

by axsdenied@pipedot.org on 2014-11-13 14:39 (#2V1T)

Actually 4 BB boards + 1 revision update pre-dated Raspberry Pi:

BeagleBoard, July 28, 2008
BeagleBoard rev.C, May 13, 2009
BeagleBoard-xM, September 14, 2010
BeagleBone, October 31, 2011
BeagleBone Black, April 23, 2013

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeagleBoard

Re: Beagleboard before Raspberry Pi, really? (Score: 2, Informative)

by fnj@pipedot.org on 2014-11-13 16:23 (#2V1Z)

4 only. 2013 does not predate 2012.

Re: Beagleboard before Raspberry Pi, really? (Score: 2, Funny)

by axsdenied@pipedot.org on 2014-11-13 22:29 (#2V26)

Ah, I can't even count to 5 properly :-)
Late night.
Thanks.

Re: Beagleboard before Raspberry Pi, really? (Score: 2, Insightful)

by tanuki64@pipedot.org on 2014-11-13 14:39 (#2V1V)

Shows again how important a good marketing is. One can only speculate, but the BB would most likely be still widely unknown without the RasPi,

Re: Beagleboard before Raspberry Pi, really? (Score: 1)

by bryan@pipedot.org on 2014-11-13 18:50 (#2V23)

The Beagleboards sold for over $100 while the Pi was $25-$35. Then again, you do get a better system - such as real gigabit Ethernet instead of something tacked onto the USB bus.

Re: Beagleboard before Raspberry Pi, really? (Score: 1)

by fnj@pipedot.org on 2014-11-20 14:40 (#2V4M)

The BeagleBone was not "over $100". It was $89. And not gigabit. Fast (100) only. At least that's the case for the BeagleBone Black, and I'm sure for the earlier boards too.

But your point is taken. Competition is good. When the BeagleBone Black came out after the Raspberry Pi, it was priced at either $40 or $45. But it seems that was too ambitious. The Rev C BeagleBone Black was raised back up to $55 in return for no meaningful improved features. It has some more memory and more eMMC. Snort. So what.

Re: Beagleboard before Raspberry Pi, really? (Score: 2, Informative)

by arashinogarou@pipedot.org on 2014-11-26 17:56 (#2V9V)

BeagleBoard, not BeagleBone. Two different devices. GP said BeagleBoard, which did originally sell for over $100; you countered with BeagleBone, an entirely different device. To my knowledge, none of the original BeagleBoards had GigE, but this newest one does.

Too many Cooks (Score: -1, Troll)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-11-13 23:53 (#2V27)

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