“APC consumes only 4 watts when operating at idle power and 13.5 watts at maximum load. This is ten times less than a standard PC system and ensures significant power savings in large scale deployments.”

Nothing about add ons though.

This is an ARM11 licensed to Via based board. Very interesting. But be forewarned, because the processor is not IaX86 based, any sort of tool-chain and board support packages will be tied tightly to Via (not good in my experience, and NO I don’t want to elaborate).

A good thing is that this board supports VGA. This is where most of the World lives IMHO today. No VGA is the major fail with the Raspberry Pi.

Also take a look at what Olimex is doing with small ARM boards lately. Also don’t lose sight of the fact that you can buy cheap consumer routers with the likes of Broadcom SoC’s that can do much from the command-line, plus they have more than one real Ethernet ports. You can only do so much with a single Ethernet port in terms of aliasing IP addresses. We need to see these Raspberry Pi competing boards with more than one directly connected Ethernet port (not to mention connecterized GPIO)

Can I ask for more journalism please? I know you can do it! Please do. Internet is filled with useless information but you can do better.

I too do many things about what, even when I have a very good excuse, I can say afterwards that those were moronic. That is a life. But when somebody does not point that out then you have no way for improvement.

This board could have been two times lower than now but they desided to use high connector with USB and Ethernet. It would have been possible to turn the headphones and mic connector 90 degrees and move that memory card socket somewhere else.

But they did not do that. Most likely because they were so stuck with the idea of this being a PC. And they lost one possible segment where to sell their product.

I still reserve the right to call this moronic even when this is a good board and I’m going to very likely order it.