On Mon, 8 Sep 2014, Robert Nelson wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 12:46 PM, Robert P. J. Day <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> > On Mon, 8 Sep 2014, Gerald Coley wrote:
> >
> >> Unless the distributors order boards, we do not build boards. We
> >> don't get orders but rarely every now and then. Lead time is about
> >> 12 weeks. We cannot build one or two boards. If we did it would cost
> >> about $500 board. We need a large order to make it worth doing.
> >
> >   i'm curious ... given the regularity with which people ask for a BB
> > xM, what exactly is the appeal of that board? are there not newer
> > boards that bring the same features to the table?
>
> I know there's a few users who built their end product around the
> xM's.. (as it's still cheaper then a few of the som's available for
> the dm3730)

  so one appeal is just historical precedent. as for the other, last
year, i bought a zoom dm3730 dev kit:

http://www.logicpd.com/products/system-on-modules/zoom-dm3730-torpedo/

is it safe to say that with this board, i really don't have any
pressing need to keep my xM around? strictly from a technical view, i
mean.

rday

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