Subj : Pinebook Pro
To   : All
From : paulie420
Date : Wed Sep 16 2020 09:16:33

Just a quickee post... I ordered a Pinebook Pro, and its a little weird
because why would anyone need/want one of these low-cost, low-cpu ARM based
machines in a laptop form- however, if you understand that its just [like] a
Raspberry Pi in a laptop, the build quality is kick butt [minus the trackpad
which is mediocre at best]. 

I almost was taken aback with how great an obviously Chinese made, low end of
the spectrum ARM laptop build came out. It's top notch. 

I guess using it for learning python and GPIO [you can access 6 thru the SD
card reader... or add a GPIO addon for 20.] its a great system. Heck, you
could run a bbs on it - or... do anything that you'd do with a top notch
Raspberry Pi system. It ships now with Manjaro ARM on it and man... it is a
tinkerers dream.

Just figured I'd post, cause I heard some people talking it down - I think
people want a full laptop daily machine out of it; if you know what you're
getting into/buying, this is a bad little machine.

I dig it... the keyboard is awesome. Metal build rocks... and while I've seen
some posts of issues on arrival, without customer support as good as the RPi
team - I haven't experienced that at all.

Furthermore, the community is pretty good - its more overseas with some
language barriers but all-in-all I recommend this hardward. I think its tits.



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