I find it hilarious when people say 1080p is a downside, when I've only ever had 10 year old thinkpads with 768p screens lol 1080p to me sounds like sci-fi technology 😅 I really want to get this laptop, but I could never see it available from Pine. I hope they restock eventually and get the supply issues sorted out.
It's in stock now. I just got mine and while there's some quirks like with the speakers and trackpad not being that great, I absolutely don't regret it, everything else is great. Price is amazing
I recommend the Pinebook Pro to moms who read email in a cafe. Why not? The only reason why it shouldn't be considered ready for productive use is that it needs drivers which aren't mainlined yet. But the quality of the hardware is good and the compute power is high enough for most usages. I have a Librem 14 for about 10 times the price but I almost always use the Pinebook Pro because I don't want to carry a 2000 + USD laptop.
This is my daily driver and is my writing laptop Replacing my Lenovo X120 I dropped some thermal paste with the stock thermal pad and it seems to work actually pretty well I tend to thermally beat the shit out of my pine book Pro. I watch 2 twitch streams at a time via stream link and use chatterino lol
Hey thanks for the video! Now a quick question, how does the performance on the PineBook Pro compare to a PineTab? I really want to get a PineTab for probably school, so canvas and word processing mostly. And then at home as a tablet. Is it's batter life good enough as well? Thanks!
It's going to be a lot faster than the PineTab thanks to a much better SoC, and you will probably be able to get one sooner (both are sold out because of the chip shortage but the Pinebook Pro is being prioritized over the PineTab for being more important) In terms of battery life, I talked about that somewhere in my video.
The Pinebook Pro is the only laptop that sells without a Management Engine and comes with GNU pre-installed. That's the USP! The only alternative I can think of (and I own) is a Purism Librem 14. But this way you would still support Intel which ships all its CPUs with an Management Engine. Purism just disables it as far as possible.
The good thing about most laptops is that you can easily swap out the speakers and improve them. Also, gnome 42 is better in terms of video acceleration, and Firefox has better video acceleration if you enable vaapi. How does gnome 42 perform on there?
Can you do a review and or set up of fedora/ manj kernel set specifically the like SPI flash and stuff. I’ve upgraded from 32 to 34 but the volume control doesn’t work but everything else does. And it seems to have taken my entire 64 gig SD card hostage and I have like two gigs of space left for updating and all that
I tried the SPI flash method and couldn't get it to work. What I did instead was use this unofficial fedora port. s3.fredhs.net/minio/pinebook-pro-image/
You described the keyboard as "mediocre", but that it had grown on you, and the trackpad as "average". When you use those words, do they mean something different to each other, or are they interchangeable? Would you rate the keyboard as: Terrible Poor Below average Average Above average Good Excellent ?
I've used my Pinebook pro for about a year. The Trackpad is terrible for stuff that requires precision, but completely servicable for web browsing, Office use, programming. The Keyboard is actually pretty close to perfect after you get used to it. The Keys are well stabilised and in terms of feel, it feels pretty close to an old apple Keyboard before they went to butterfly. Wrote my 20 page seminary work exclusively on my Pinebook. Conclusion : The inputs are fine, but if you do anything like video editing, photo editing - connect a mouse to it. The Trackpad just isn't that precise.
Can you run windows on this laptop never had a Linux laptop or is there purpose for is it for developers looking for $200-$300 laptop that will have most of the bells and whistles
Keep in mind it's no M1 Macbook replacement given it's relatively weak SOC, 4 gig o' ram and pitifully slow stock storage, but it's cheap, very hackable and quite charming.
You have not said about BIOS, in another video they said it boots sd card first. Does it mean it lacks BIOS (as in x86) where you can set boot order, enable/disable wifi, see specs? Thanks!
@@PizzaLovingNerd - Well, YEAH! I got that part. 😄 LOL I just thought they didn't have any to send. I don't suppose you have any info to share about when they might become available again?
reminder that every laptop and monitor you've ever bought has come with the exact same message, but usually hidden in the terms of service. I have a ton of pine64 products with screens here and none of them have any dead pixels, just like every other monitor or laptop you can buy.
@@MartijnBraam also i have heard that some people return monitor if it has dead pixels. So it's kinda weird that shop would accept those returns if they don't have to.
The PineBook seems to suffer from the same ailment as the PinePhone. The Pinephone's hardware is so weak that its performance is just atrocious and therefore mine has quickly become a paperweight. Who wants to buy a laptop with 4 GB of RAM and 128 GB of storage? These specs would have been good more than a decade ago. Today, they almost guarantee that nobody is going to use this device for more than playing around with it a bit. My daily driver is a more than ten years old Thinkpad X230, and I have to say that even at that age it is far superior. What is even the point of these devices? There is plenty of Linux laptops or Laptops that run Linux perfectly out there. I cannot see the need for such an underequipped "development device" that cannot be used for any real work.
