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I love what Pine is trying to do, but man those A53 CPUs and Mali-400 GPUs are really pretty crummy. Similarly spec'd Allwinner chips were on the PlayStation Classic and Nintendo Classic microconsoles.
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Side thought... is it even cheaper if you just have displays/use an ESP to do http requests to a local server... guess depends what they have to do. I mean I think you would need a 32 to drive the display too vs. just an ESP01
I don't think they're capable of displaying a web page
Yeah missed the Kanban part
Absolutely incredible for the $120 price point. If they release a PineTab Pro in the future with 4 (or dare I say 8GB) of ram, I'd be all over it. At that point, I could really start to be productive. 2GB is a bit limiting for the modern web unfortunately, but there is a ton of potential here. I'm considering buying one to use as my main machine for this next year at Uni. Taking notes in VS Code/Vim would be fine, bu…
Having only 4 GiB of non-expandable RAM is really my only complaint with the PineBook Pro. I bought one anyways though. The only other complaint would be not being upfront about the video encoder and decoder not being ready, but the decoder looks like it'll work when kernel 5.8 releases. Still though, it's hard to find a $200 laptop with a 1080p IPS display regardless, it being open source just makes it so much coole…
Meanwhile with linux your memory needs are generally modest.
Meanwhile coming up on a month of waiting for my ubports pinephone to arrive... Not even a shipping update yet.
Uhhh yeah they have https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=9942
If I'm expected to go root out some forum thread to monitor progress on things I purchase from the pine64 store, that's worth noting here to inform everyone's expectations.
I suppose the keyboard needs to be attached to operate? I use a Surface Book. I’ve been interested to discover that I would quite often like to have the keyboard continue to work after detaching the base, because when drawing on the device a keyboard is still useful for switching between tools, activating things, typing in precise values when necessary, &c. To be sure, a large part of this is just that I’m using apps…
source: https://www.pine64.org/pinetab/ ("Learn More About It!" link at the bottom goes to forum post from 2019)
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This amazes me. You could literally spend 2 grand on a machine and still be told its ok for it to be defective out of the box.
Well, if it's a high-res display then there's a lot more pixels so a greater chance of failure. I actually really like this system and wish that I could trade-off further down the spectrum on quality. After all, to get a zero-dead-pixel device you just have to check in the second-hand market like people do for high-binned CPUs. The volume of true demand for those CPUs is high enough that there are retailers like Sili…
Alternatively they just buy their displays from brick and mortar companies that allow you to return for any reason at all and just return for replacement any device that has any number of dead pixels.
I've never bought a display that had any number of defective pixels in almost 3 decades of using computers I'm betting lots of people are in the same boat. Logically the price is built into whatever such places are selling them for based on some percentage of users returning anything with any number of dead pixels.
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Having only 4 GiB of non-expandable RAM is really my only complaint with the PineBook Pro. I bought one anyways though. The only other complaint would be not being upfront about the video encoder and decoder not being ready, but the decoder looks like it'll work when kernel 5.8 releases. Still though, it's hard to find a $200 laptop with a 1080p IPS display regardless, it being open source just makes it so much coole…
I have to say though - this is not a windows or macos machine. Each of those operating systems run an enormous number of background processes (many not in your best interests) Meanwhile with linux your memory needs are generally modest.
Do you know if these binaries are required to run the Pinetab?
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I have to say though - this is not a windows or macos machine. Each of those operating systems run an enormous number of background processes (many not in your best interests) Meanwhile with linux your memory needs are generally modest.
Till you want to run some electron apps
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I have to say though - this is not a windows or macos machine. Each of those operating systems run an enormous number of background processes (many not in your best interests) Meanwhile with linux your memory needs are generally modest.
Till you want to run some electron apps