has an available JTAG adapter pod that costs very little,
Michael, while I totally agree with your post, however he is balking over $75 for Aspire so he probably does not agree with "costs very little".

Ever so often we see "I want the moon for sixpence" (deliberate bungling of expression).

Anyhow, it is my impression that the SILabs products are more widespread than the ADUC (SILabs announced 10k dev boards sold) and, generally, you get a better product if you buy something 'popular' because of more users. Oh, well - Microsoft is a glaring exception to this, but for development tools I have found it to be true in most cases.

Erik