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Trying out the Pinebook Pro – a $200 ARM Laptop

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Re: Trying out the Pinebook Pro – a $200 ARM Laptop

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Post by kube-system »

jolmg wrote: post #6
smacktoward wrote: post #2

Seeing all that empty internal space makes me wonder if they couldn't increase the device's appeal by fitting it with a bigger battery. 8-10 hours of charge time is good, but a $200 laptop that could go for (say) 20 or 30 hours on a charge would really turn heads. I suppose it's possible that would require some kind of custom battery, and this is just the most appropriate battery for this enclosure they could get off…

It's an 10,000 mAh battery, though. That's huge, isn't it? I don't know any other laptop that has a battery that big. Looking online, Macbooks seem to have around 6,000 mAh.

You'd want to compare watt-hours for an equal comparison of energy for batteries of different voltages.

38Wh is fairly small for a laptop battery.

Re: Trying out the Pinebook Pro – a $200 ARM Laptop

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Post by akhilcacharya »

xhkkffbf wrote: post #8
aphistic wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sure a bigger battery would increase the cost of the laptop. At $200 the margin has to be pretty thin already.

Sure. So charge $250 or $300 for the one that goes 30 hours.

I’d snap that up immediately. A 24 hour hacker machine would be killer! A modern Tandy 100

Re: Trying out the Pinebook Pro – a $200 ARM Laptop

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Post by AgloeDreams »

jolmg wrote: post #6
smacktoward wrote: post #2

Seeing all that empty internal space makes me wonder if they couldn't increase the device's appeal by fitting it with a bigger battery. 8-10 hours of charge time is good, but a $200 laptop that could go for (say) 20 or 30 hours on a charge would really turn heads. I suppose it's possible that would require some kind of custom battery, and this is just the most appropriate battery for this enclosure they could get off…

It's an 10,000 mAh battery, though. That's huge, isn't it? I don't know any other laptop that has a battery that big. Looking online, Macbooks seem to have around 6,000 mAh.

Amps is a bad measure because it only measures size and not voltage. What you really want is Watt/Hours, this is a 38Wh Battery, in context, a 13 inch Chromebook Pixel (a pro linux laptop, sort of) was ~70Wh, a Macbook Pro 16 is 99Wh.

Re: Trying out the Pinebook Pro – a $200 ARM Laptop

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Post by AgloeDreams »

kube-system wrote: post #11
jolmg wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's an 10,000 mAh battery, though. That's huge, isn't it? I don't know any other laptop that has a battery that big. Looking online, Macbooks seem to have around 6,000 mAh.

You'd want to compare watt-hours for an equal comparison of energy for batteries of different voltages. 38Wh is fairly small for a laptop battery.

I like how we all commented at the same time. poor OP...

Re: Trying out the Pinebook Pro – a $200 ARM Laptop

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Post by jolmg »

kube-system wrote: post #11
jolmg wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's an 10,000 mAh battery, though. That's huge, isn't it? I don't know any other laptop that has a battery that big. Looking online, Macbooks seem to have around 6,000 mAh.

You'd want to compare watt-hours for an equal comparison of energy for batteries of different voltages. 38Wh is fairly small for a laptop battery.

You're right. I see now that the high mAh is due to the low voltage.

Re: Trying out the Pinebook Pro – a $200 ARM Laptop

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Post by jammygit »

lanewinfield wrote: post #10

An "annoying touchpad" is likely a dealbreaker for me. It's the holy grail for Linux to me and I feel like it's never been solved by anybody but Apple (w/o Linux). That being said, I could exist in the command line most of the time...

A good keyboard with a keyboard driven distribution does the trick too though
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