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I have an odd affliction - I collect ARM devices. Right from the OpenMoko Freerunner, through the N900 and now the Raspberry Pi.

It's always a tradeoff between price, community size and compute power with these little things. Hell, even the ZipIt Z2 running a tiny little Freescale processor had a good community when it was new.

I can go and get a HardKernel O2 and have really good performance but there won't be that many people in the IRC channel to help me out when I have a device specific question.

The Raspberry Pi has captured such an audience that there's people everywhere who can help, as well as a huge amount of development going on.

The other advantage of the Raspberry Pi is that replacing the whole board is cheaper than buying the JTAG breakout for other devices (I'm looking at you, GlobalScale).

I'd love to talk with you further about the different devices around - I really do have a lot of them and I have more on the way. Support and communities for ARM devices seems to be really fragmented, and it's a shame.

I think my contact details are in my profile. Sorry for the rambling reply, it's late here.