> Nice to see that they're using SOC's that we've already discussed.

As we've discussed all Power(PC) ISA SoCs ever available, they weren't able to use one we've not discussed ;-)
Btw, why not continue to use your long-existing account?

> I to would prefer the T2081 [...]. The extra cores would be useful under Linux.

That's just extra-threads compared to the T1042.

> an MATX form factor board with expansion slots would have been more useful.

Erm...