The new cRIO system looks like the cRIO-9012 model (specs wise) with the integrated controller and chassis. The price range looks like it will come to ~$2000-$3000 dollars for the whole system.

When at one of the presentations, one of the NI reps said that the 802.11a standard would be used. This would make sense because of the 11 channel system that it has.

The fact they are letting us compile with C++ opens up lots of oppurtunities. You could actually code in a different languages (provided that you could convert the C++ libraries to a different language) and then convert to C++ to use with the cRIO system.

I think that this new system is way better than the old. The IFI system always seemed very limited to me. You had limited memory. The system couldn't support higher level language and as a result class files/namespaces/polymorphism and other higher level language features could not be used. I'm really excited to get my hands on this new system. I heard that this system will be available for us in November, can anyone confirm this? Meanwhile, I'll practice LabView with mindstorms