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eMMC makes this a hard pass for me.

Please elaborate and help us understand your view.

How does having an eMMC onboard make the board useless to you, even if you don't use this feature?

eMMC is certainly better than an SD card in several ways. And, as you say, you can always ignore it.

Similar, really, to how XTHeadVector is better than no SIMD/Vector, is 95% the same opcodes and functionality as RVV 1.0, is now well-supported in GCC 14, and you can always ignore it, no?

If the eMMC failed then the board would become a brick until the associated chips were desoldered and replaced.

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