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hamilton <hamilton@nothere.com> wrote:

>On 3/8/2012 8:20 AM, Nico Coesel wrote:
>>
>> I see no mounting holes:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Raspberry_Pi_Beta_Board.jpg
>>
>> It would be very nice if the Olimex board becomes something like this
>> board:
>> http://www.conitec.net/english/linuxboard.php
>>
>> The board by Conitec is just too expensive. I did look at it to build
>> products around but the price was a showstopper.
>>
>I wonder if Conitec had portrayed their board as a educational 
>non-profit board would they have had thousands of people clamoring to 
>buy one, and the price would have dropped to a reasonable level ??

Perhaps. But others boards are not really cheap either. However, the
performance of the Conitec board is very poor. The same price will buy
you a board with an 800MHz Cortex A8 CPU and 512MB of memory. It seems
Conitec moved itself into the market of professional device
programmers. Over a decade ago I bought one of their Galep
programmers. Really nice but nowadays you can buy a Chinese programmer
for 1/10th the price Conitec is charging.

>Building 100 of anything is expensive, build 10,000 can get cheap in a 
>hurry.

Exactly. Imagine being able to put something together on a piece of
stripboard or a PCB you etch yourself and put some real processing
horsepower into it for a small amount of money.

-- 
Failure does not prove something is impossible, failure simply
indicates you are not using the right tools...
nico@nctdevpuntnl (punt=.)
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