This is not a "Hobbyist" product. It is an "Enthusiast" product. If using it is too steep learning curve then most other Single Board Linux Computers would be too hard as well. You need to appreciate that more than 90% of the "learning" you will be doing will not be Parallella, it would be Linux and uP. Of the remaining 10%, about 9% of it would be the Zynq processor. Other than that it is very straight forward.
You are right that it is hard to find uses for so many processor cores. It is a novel product and that attract attention. Then I must add that I cannot see why with very good programming you need more than 100MHz processor and more than one core - to entertain and help humans. Sorry but I come from the ZX Spectrum 16k era where there were no GPU and only 4MHz of processing delivering excellent full colour entertainment.
There are some uses that makes sense, but they are not Hobbyist kind of uses.Statistics: Posted by glamprecht — Fri Jul 15, 2016 8:49 am
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