Looks like the Cubieboard has nominally better specs - twice the RAM and NAND), but a couple things worth noting if people are looking to do electronics-type ha

Looks like the Cubieboard has nominally better specs - twice the RAM and NAND), but a couple things worth noting if people are looking to do electronics-type hacking: * the Cubieboard comes w/ male headers for its I/O pins. This is a lot less convenient from a practical perspective. There's an additional baseboard you can get but it's huge or I guess you can put your own blocks on. * the Beaglebone comes w/ two PRUs if you need to do real-time work this is pretty sweet * For general I/O, libraries like PyBBIO and Bonescript make the Beaglebone dead simple to program with. As far as I can tell, to access GPIO for the Cubieboard, there's a custom kernel module driver you'll need to install to access via /sys and no clear docs on PWM or other "basic" stuff. Also looks like right now, the Cubieboard is a lot less mature and it's unclear what the timeline is for it to get better - for example, looking at the Google Groups threads, looks like there's the VPU/GPU acceleration is a bit finicky (the Cubieboard uses Mali-400, Beaglebone uses SGX530, both closed source/binary only drivers). There also seems to be a pretty active contingent of... less than helpful people on a lot of threads.