Originally posted by abacus:
A new board takes a good 2 – 3 years to develop, (Sometimes longer) with the hardware chosen first; therefore they will always be using old technology compared to the current that is available when the board is released.
This is a bad thing...
With current hardware compatibillity, they can eassily and affordable update processing hardware during the design of a system..
So when i started out developing 4 years ago on Pentium 4 and 256 MB i would have ended up with a 3ghz Quadcore and 4GB RAm in the end. All the hardware is compatible.
Only the digital analogue soundhardware would be 4 years old at the end of the development. This would be no problem as this hardware has a much longer lifespan then the processing powers...
Your beloved Wersi is a very good excample of how it could be done, they even let you upgrade the hardware after release...
If developers choose smart and wise they would never end up with old and obsolete hardware.
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