I feel this is going to be a lag monster.
it is sort of, but not terrible for 99$ device with a keyboard.
Pine64 launches the cheapest Linux Tablet ever priced at just $99.99
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, probably about as well as any of the quicker RPi clones would, which is pretty decent for light tasks. $100 is about as much as you’d pay for one of those plus a touchscreen anyways, so it sounds like a fair deal.
I only have one Pine device, a Pinebook. The build quality seems good to me, it isn't just a collection of components thrown together.
Mind if I ask what you use it for? I’m always tempted to buy one but I don’t really know what I would do with it besides stick it in my drawer of cool but not particularly useful tech that gathers dust.
At least it’s cheaper than my Google Glass and GoPro...
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#13I think there might eventually be a market for a high-end ARM64 Linux laptop or convertible with excellent build quality, long battery life, lots of cores and RAM, etc.
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#14Technically, Amazon Fire tablets are also Linux, and cheaper. (But the Fire runs Linux in the outdated-Android-with-crapware sense, of course, so this is still quite different)
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#15Anybody here remember the HP Touchpad firesale where HP liquidated their stock of cancelled not-quite-iPad-competitors for $99.99 and people went nuts for them?
It's weird how that felt like a great deal and yet this one is expensive enough to make me question if I could get anything close to that much value out of it. The HP firesale was back in the days where a decent tablet cost around $500 and it was a screaming deal. Now people practically give tablets away, I've seen Amazon's Fire tablets sell for $39 brand new.
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#16You get what you pay for
Even the product photograph[1] on the website looks like a picture of a second hand laptop from a decade ago on Craigslist.
[1] https://www.pine64.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/pinetab_KB...
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#17I did some actual work on an ASUS Chromebook C201P, running VS Code, Postgresql, pgAdmin and Node.js. It was a little bit slow, but not too bad.
I kind of expected/hoped this to be better than that old Chromebook, but reading this https://www.cnx-software.com/2015/04/09/relative-performance... it looks like it has even worse performance (A17 vs A53)
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#18I think there might eventually be a market for a high-end ARM64 Linux laptop or convertible with excellent build quality, long battery life, lots of cores and RAM, etc.
I hope we will see RISC-V devices
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#20I wonder why they price their products so cheap.
They seem to be totally overrun by demand. And give a terrible user experience when you try to order from them. Friends of mine have ordered (and paid!) Pine64 products weeks ago and get no information when they will be shipped. When you send them an email, it either gets ignored or you get a reply by someone who does not speak English. Telling you something like "Yes will inform you when be shipped".
Why not charge 50% more and treat your customers like customers?
This taints the whole Pine64 brand for me. I totally want a Linux phone and a Linux tablet. But I don't know if I should trust a brand that treats their customers like this.