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How can they give out free ones without coming up with a price? You cannot develop a commercial product without knowing how much it will cost.

• zokier 16y ago
  I believe the purpose of dev kits is prototyping, where cost isn't that much of an issue.
  • aberkowitz 16y ago
    They're asking you to invest your valuable ttime into developing a product when they cannot tell you how much it will cost. What happens if you develop a product and then you find out that the hardware cost pushes it out of the price point for your target demograpic?
    • zokier 16y ago
      What I meant was that I don't think PandaBoard itself is meant to ship for your customers, but to allow you to prototype your ideas, and evaluate the hardware needs of your product, so that you can then build your own hardware which you ship to your customers. And that's why I said that dev kit price is not that much of an issue, as it does not directly affect the price of the hardware you are going to ship. edit: from their FAQ: Is PandaBoard a end product or can I utilize it in my end product? PandaBoard is a development platform! It is not an end product nor do we recommend directly using it in an end product. We encourage you to leverage open & low cost PandaBoard to explore, prototype your software & hardware design and venture into creating your own OMAP4430 based product.