I usually like all Odroid products but fail to understand the reason behind making those general purpose boards -beside being excellent for prototyping and development- which will probably cost more than a specialized one and can lack important features often due to space constraints. Can economics be the only reason? For example, although this board can do its job as a firewall, a NAS, or a workstation, what if Odroid made three different models, say:

model A: 3 NICs, no audio, no video, no SATA, aimed at firewalls with DMZ

model B: 1 or 2 NICs, again no audio and no video though a minimum of 2 to 4 SATA ports to be used as NAS/server machines w/software RAID etc.

model C: more powerful CPU, just 1 NIC, audio, video and 1 SATA port to be used as a client/MPC etc.

Would the higher cost of producing 3 specialized boards exceed the benefits of making general purpose ones where for example a powerful and costly GPU is left unused because the user had no alternatives to consider for building his file server? I for one would seriously consider purchasing the first two (as I did with other pcengines.ch firewall boards in the past).