It still exposes the gpio pins. So if you want to build something with a pi (as opposed to for the pi) then this is actually quite nice. I for one ordered one

It still exposes the gpio pins. So if you want to build something with a pi (as opposed to for the pi) then this is actually quite nice. I for one ordered one (and am playing with it right now) because it's an incredibly low barrier way to dogfood some software projects on arm. I'm loving it, it's very different to an arm laptop, it's got more of a console feeling which is great :)