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by georgemcbay 4792 days ago
I've got a couple of BeagleBone Blacks, they are great devices.

I love writing Go code on them:

http://www.gmcbay.com/2013/05/go-on-the-beaglebone-black/

http://www.gmcbay.com/2013/05/more-go-on-the-beaglebone-blac...

One caveat emptor for them vs the Pi though is that it doesn't have the GPU assisted video-decoding ability of the Pi (which, despite not being one of the main goals of the Pi ended up being an important factor in the success of the platform, IMO) and even for just basic framebuffer and 3D graphics they do not support 1920x1080 output currently (and if they do in the future it'll likely be limited to a slow refresh rate due to pixel clock limitations). For many people/projects this doesn't matter and the much better GPIO of the BeagleBone (and the presence of a couple of real-time capable microcontrollers separate from the ARM cpu) would be more important than the video limitations.