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I can confirm that the BBB uses no more than 500mA while running intensive tasks. I have mine connected to a power supply that only provides that much, and it hasn't had any issues.

Beaglebone Black all the way. Low powered, more grunt than a Rpi and can run with no binary blobs whatsoever.

I'd be interested in this too. Have you looked at maybe using the WR703n[0]? It runs OpenWRT. I think that hovers around 500mA as well, though.

[0] - http://www.everbuying.com/product65368.html

I was excited about the BBB specially because of the NAND Flash availability. In similar fashion as the RPi back in the day lead time is (as far as I can tell) in months

Whats your application? We have a pi up a mountain on a solar panel and it is doing ok.