Looking at the Beaglebone, it seems to have a very different target market to the Raspberry Pi; judging from the single USB port, the lack of display adapter and the large number of GPIO pins, one would say the Beaglebone is primarily aimed at hackers, particularly hardware hackers. The Pi on the other hand is aimed at getting people into programming and teaching general computer skills to those who otherwise couldn't afford a computer.
I couldn't see my parents figuring out how to get a Beagleboard hooked up to their TV and surfing the net, but I could definitely see them doing this with a Raspberry Pi unit.
I'm sure I have heard of another board recently that was neither the Pi nor the Beagleboard that had similar specs to the Pi in terms of design, but used the same A8 as the beagleboard, clocked at 1.5GHz or something. But that project was just in its infancy, so won't be available till next year. I'm somewhat sceptical because they're throwing around specs like >1GB of NAND flash, >1GB DDR3-800, etc. for 40% less cost than the Pi.
EDIT: Someone linked it below, Rhombus Tech, using some Chinese-manufactured chip.
I couldn't see my parents figuring out how to get a Beagleboard hooked up to their TV and surfing the net, but I could definitely see them doing this with a Raspberry Pi unit.
I'm sure I have heard of another board recently that was neither the Pi nor the Beagleboard that had similar specs to the Pi in terms of design, but used the same A8 as the beagleboard, clocked at 1.5GHz or something. But that project was just in its infancy, so won't be available till next year. I'm somewhat sceptical because they're throwing around specs like >1GB of NAND flash, >1GB DDR3-800, etc. for 40% less cost than the Pi.
EDIT: Someone linked it below, Rhombus Tech, using some Chinese-manufactured chip.