Hello Richard!

** On Thursday 14.05.20 - 08:01, Richard Menedetter wrote to August Abolins:

BTW I also have a Pinebook Pro and a Pinephone.
Both have physical switches for the camera and Microphone ;)
BTW2 do not really use the Pinephone, just bought it out of curiosity.
But I use the Pinebook Pro regularly! ;)

Speaking of lowcost laptops, I discovered this article, and it mentions on
a sidenote that the Pinebook is passivley cooled (ie. no fan)

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/we-bought-walmarts-140-laptop-so- you-wouldnt-have-to/

How long have you had your Pinebook Pro now?

Any shortcomings so far?




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Hi August!

21 Jun 2020 15:51, from August Abolins -> Richard Menedetter:

Speaking of lowcost laptops, I discovered this article, and it
mentions on a sidenote that the Pinebook is passivley cooled (ie. no
fan)

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/we-bought-walmarts-140-laptop-
so- you-wouldnt-have-to/

How long have you had your Pinebook Pro now?
Any shortcomings so far?

I have it for maybe half a year.
I like it very much and I use it daily.
With 6 cores (2 big + 4 little) and 4 GB of RAM it is enough for my day to day use. (1 million Firefox tabs and 2-3 terminals with SSH to Linux Servers)

There are many supported OSes.
I use the default Manjaro (??), and it has some issues with the WiFi sometimes it looses connection, and you have to reconnect.

I tried the Chromebook image, and it did not have that issue there, but I did not like that image. (you can boot from SD card to try out new images without flashing the eMMC)

Apart from the WiFi issue I have no issues.
It is no powerhouse with but it is enough for 99% of what I do.
And it is much lighter and the battery life is much longer than my regular laptop.

CU, Ricsi

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August Abolins wrote to Richard Menedetter <=-

Hello Richard!

** On Thursday 14.05.20 - 08:01, Richard Menedetter wrote to August Abolins:

BTW I also have a Pinebook Pro and a Pinephone.
Both have physical switches for the camera and Microphone ;)
BTW2 do not really use the Pinephone, just bought it out of curiosity.
But I use the Pinebook Pro regularly! ;)

Speaking of lowcost laptops, I discovered this article, and it mentions
on a sidenote that the Pinebook is passivley cooled (ie. no fan)

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/we-bought-walmarts-140-laptop-so
-
you-wouldnt-have-to/

How long have you had your Pinebook Pro now?

Any shortcomings so far?

I got the first pinebook as an early adopter.

A few weeks into owning my pinebook, I left it on my couch all day and the battery died. Ever since then manage to get it to power up and give me the pine splash screen but it never gets past.

My experience with the pine forum is that they expect anyone on there to be hyper-knowledgeable in the hacker/maker space. I'm not either of those. So, I attempted to troubleshoot as much as possible. Obtaining help from the people there wasn't helpful enough to a point that it led to a resolution. The last solution I got from them was to do a reimage of the OS on the device. Documentation was pretty raw and following their steps as closely as possible never managed to get the device working again. Their IRC didn't lead to any assistance either. I got the message, if you can't handle figuring it out yourself, you don't belong here.

I'm considering pulling the pine board out and slapping a Pi in its place since it's a complete laptop chassis with keybaord, trackpad, display, speakers.

Daniel Traechin

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