Can I please have a $1000 ARM laptop? Or at least something that feels like a $1000 ARM laptop. Make it good enough and I'm not actually too fussed if it costs 500 or 1500.
Pinebook – A $100 14" ARM laptop
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#42I could see something like this being an everyday machine if it had a decent display (even at a few times the cost). Am I the only one who wants a super cheap SOC with a nice screen, keyboard and trackpad (and long battery life with no fans, since the SOC draws << 10W...)
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#43why not something like this https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/gpd-pocket-7-0-umpc-lapto... those 14" would be better served with a better cpu
> GamePad Digital introduces our 7-inch PC that fits in your pocket! 8GB RAM and 128GB ROM ...doesn't ROM stand for "Read-Only Memory"?
A throwback from the old Pocket PC days. This seems to be written by a nostalgic.
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/2005/08/19/ra...
Re: Pinebook – A $100 14" ARM laptop
#44Here's a review of it by Hackaday: http://hackaday.com/2017/04/28/hands-on-with-the-pinebook/
You can’t give this to your kid that’s heading off to college — or even high school — and expect them to manage. It’s also not really a replacement for a low-end Chromebook, the desktop is sufficiently sluggish that I’d be wary of recommending it as a cheap web browsing laptop for the sofa.
Okay, well, that's not great. I guess...
On the other hand, I must admit, I rather like it. It’s a lot better put together than a $89 laptop has any right to be, and despite the battery there’s a lot of space inside for adding things. Quite what things I’m not entirely clear on, in the same way I’m just not sure what I’m going to do with it quite yet. But I’ll figure something out.
Okay, now I'm confused... he likes it, but doesn't know why, and doesn't know what he'd do with it because it's unsuitable for the things he'd normally use a laptop for.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hugged to death or just poorly managed. Doesn't bode well for a company trying to peddle its wares.
It really, really doesn't, but thanks for the downvotes folks.
The performance of a website during high-stress load really, really does not have much to do with anything else a company does.
Re: Pinebook – A $100 14" ARM laptop
#46Here's a review of it by Hackaday: http://hackaday.com/2017/04/28/hands-on-with-the-pinebook/
That was rather unflattering.
Pine still have software issues:
* Audio out doesn't work
* Video out doesn't work
* 11" screen flickers
* Reduced battery life
Re: Pinebook – A $100 14" ARM laptop
#47Here's a review of it by Hackaday: http://hackaday.com/2017/04/28/hands-on-with-the-pinebook/
You can’t give this to your kid that’s heading off to college — or even high school — and expect them to manage. It’s also not really a replacement for a low-end Chromebook, the desktop is sufficiently sluggish that I’d be wary of recommending it as a cheap web browsing laptop for the sofa. Okay, well, that's not great. I guess... On the other hand, I must admit, I rather like it. It’s a lot better put together than…
So, like a raspberry Pi? It's a computer, but it's quite crappy at being a "normal computer", but it is flexible, so you'll come up with something cool that you couldn't do otherwise?
Re: Pinebook – A $100 14" ARM laptop
#48Here's a review of it by Hackaday: http://hackaday.com/2017/04/28/hands-on-with-the-pinebook/
You can’t give this to your kid that’s heading off to college — or even high school — and expect them to manage. It’s also not really a replacement for a low-end Chromebook, the desktop is sufficiently sluggish that I’d be wary of recommending it as a cheap web browsing laptop for the sofa. Okay, well, that's not great. I guess... On the other hand, I must admit, I rather like it. It’s a lot better put together than…
Okay, now I'm confused
If you're the sort of person who needs a laptop to do the sort of things most normal people use a laptop for then this probably isn't for you. If you're the sort of person who might consider taking a laptop apart and trying to make it do weird and wonderful things the creators had never thought of and realize there is a good chance you'll end up bricking it in the process (and thus don't want to spend too much money on it) then this might just be the laptop you've been looking for
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wow, I've been pondering gutting a Toshiba Libretto and putting a Raspberry Pi inside so I can have a modern(ish) hardware in that form factor. I am so the target market for this! Unfortunately I don't have a lot of faith in crowdfunded hardware projects.. :/
How about something mote established then, like the Pocket CHIP[0]? [0] https://getchip.com/pages/pocketchip
I do like the chip's game library
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can’t give this to your kid that’s heading off to college — or even high school — and expect them to manage. It’s also not really a replacement for a low-end Chromebook, the desktop is sufficiently sluggish that I’d be wary of recommending it as a cheap web browsing laptop for the sofa. Okay, well, that's not great. I guess... On the other hand, I must admit, I rather like it. It’s a lot better put together than…
So, like a raspberry Pi? It's a computer, but it's quite crappy at being a "normal computer", but it is flexible, so you'll come up with something cool that you couldn't do otherwise?
A Pi is a flexible, small form factor kit computer that has a very clear set of use cases in home automation, robotics, and other embedded applications, among many other things.
The author couldn't come up with a use case for this contraption.
Quite honestly, what would you do with it? Back in the day I might've said thinclient X terminal but those days are long gone, and besides, I could buy a far more powerful used laptop at the same price for that purpose, so... I'm at a loss.
What would you do with this that you wouldn't just do with a Pi or similar?