Another manufacturer for BBB

Looks like a price increase is happening:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.beagleboard.user/64166

Since it seems to be aimed at getting more manufacturers involved in order to increase supply, I'm surprised that e14 isn't using the embest one for this.

Still, a price increase is dubious at best. The BBB is already more expensive than the more capable OLinuXino-LIME and it won't take much to push it into head to head competition with e14's RIoT board.

Looks like we might be getting the Embest one outside China after all, noticed this the other day

Mfg is e14, country of origin China and unfortunately includes the previously mentioned price increase

The RIoT board is £46.55 here in the UK, it has twice the RAM, twice the eMMC, gigabit network, four usb, audio connectors, better CPU, better GPU... the list goes on of ways it offers more than the BBB.  So while I'm sure there will be a certain amount of RPi effect where people will choose the BBB simply because it's a BBB, personally I don't think it'll be quite so simple a choice. 

The BBB is really good at the original price, but it's competing against a different set of boards at this price.

Great comparison!  I just got mine too.  I agree it would be nice if the sticker said that revision though my box did have Rev B printed on it.

lol.. actually so does mine..  I wonder why they print that in just one place and on the edge that you're least likely to look at.

Hope they have the RevC stickers ready

Looks like the 1K or thereabouts they had in the UK has sold out in about 1-2days and they're eating into the 5th May delivery already. Hope the e14 factory is ready for what's to come

Here's the box:

gallery of photos (though I wasn't as smart as agrahambell to do a side-by-side: https://plus.google.com/photos/117542001281850354871/albums/6000002045485150529?banner=pwa

I just did a check from the terminal.  Details in a github gist:

https://gist.github.com/pdp7/10182933

kernel:

Linux beaglebone 3.8.13 #1 SMP Wed Sep 4 09:09:32 CEST 2013 armv7l GNU/Linux

 

u-boot.img:

u-boot legacy uImage, U-Boot 2013.04-dirty for am335x \024, Firmware/ARM, Firmware Image (Not compressed), 379364 bytes, Wed Jul 10 07:03:22 2013, Load Address: 0x80800000, Entry Point: 0x00000000, Header CRC: 0xB08E82B0, Data CRC: 0x9923231

Laptop with linux on it, impressive.  Still working 486 laptop, even more impressive

Hehe, I'm a Strongbad fan

Yup, I've been using Linux for my desktop/laptop OS since around 2004 (oh my, that is 10 years ago now... feeling old).  Sadly, I think I'm the only person in my office that runs it anymore (darn Macbooks had several jump ship) but we've got a good community LUG here in Chicago

I was thinking that the last time I had linux on a 486 laptop (early IBM Thinkpad) was around 1992/3, so I'm blaming you for making me feel old

I still use thinkpads, and they still look near identical :-)

I sadly ordered the CircuitCo BBB a month back before the Embest one was announced, and so now I have neither, hehe.

I was going to ask Farnell if the order can be swapped to an Embest one, but they disappeared pretty quick and are now out of stock too!

NICE! It probably still works

The laptop I had back in '04 was a Thinkpad Pentium II.  They had great quality.

Ya, I'm a Thinkpad fan - I'm glad my employers have been too!

Your best bet for the BBB may be to place a backorder on the CircuitCo and Embest SKU so you'll have a place in line either way.  I'm hoping the Embest/Element14 SKU stock will rebound soon.  The rapid sales of the initial batch should send a strong signal to the business folks I hope.

Ya, I'm a Thinkpad fan - I'm glad my employers have been too!

Your best bet for the BBB may be to place a backorder on the CircuitCo and Embest SKU so you'll have a place in line either way.  I'm hoping the Embest/Element14 SKU stock will rebound soon.  The rapid sales of the initial batch should send a strong signal to the business folks I hope.

At least on the uk site they've set to CircuitCo sku to 'no longer stocked' and there was a message in the mailing list yesterday saying they'd sent out a mail telling people to cancel any order for the CircuitCo one and re-order the e14 version instead.  A couple of hours later they were all gone.