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Quad core ARM processor, 2GB of ram, and a 10in display with a keyboard for $120 is pretty sweet. I hope they eventually make a "PineTab Pro" like they did with

by jjice 6y ago

Quad core ARM processor, 2GB of ram, and a 10in display with a keyboard for $120 is pretty sweet. I hope they eventually make a "PineTab Pro" like they did with the book and boost it's ram a bit. Even at 4GB, this would be a pretty exciting machine.

ge96 6y ago
Yeah that 2GB is kind of sketch, kind of curious what usage percentage you'd have just being idle. I used to use a tiling manager back when I had crappy laptops just to save some ram. I would be interested to see how this thing does with battery life/drawing with a stylus. I'm not an artist but I use sketching to prototype wireframe/mechanical stuff.
chipperyman573 6y ago
Yeah, 2gb ram is a little concerning, it seems like it'd be only good for an IOT controller or something that offloads the processing somewhere else
- a1369209993 6y ago
  Not that you're wrong per se, but this is really damning (and also quite depressing) indictment of modern software.
- MarcusE1W 6y ago
  2GB is ok for what you normally do with a phone or tablet. Manage small chunks of data, writing, browsing, little development, some games. I have used the Original Pinebook for about a year as my main private laptop and can say it was an enjoyable experience. Of course it depends on what you want to do, it’s not high end but definitely usable and fun.
  - ferzul 6y ago
    a chat program and a music program just started up, not doing anything but idling, nowadays use 500 MiB each. 2 GiB is not enough any more because everyone writes their apps in dom now, because it seems to be the only toolkit with vaguely viable, non-sucky state management libraries, and it just isn't efficient enough. this isn't intrinsic tho (and then yesterday i just tried windows 7 for the first time in a vm with 2 GiB allocated, and it was far snappier than i could have imagined).

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Quad core ARM processor, 2GB of ram, and a 10in display with a keyboard for $120 is pretty sweet. I hope they eventually make a "PineTab Pro" like they did with

by jjice 6y ago

ge96 6y ago
Yeah that 2GB is kind of sketch, kind of curious what usage percentage you'd have just being idle. I used to use a tiling manager back when I had crappy laptops just to save some ram. I would be interested to see how this thing does with battery life/drawing with a stylus. I'm not an artist but I use sketching to prototype wireframe/mechanical stuff.
chipperyman573 6y ago
Yeah, 2gb ram is a little concerning, it seems like it'd be only good for an IOT controller or something that offloads the processing somewhere else
- a1369209993 6y ago
  Not that you're wrong per se, but this is really damning (and also quite depressing) indictment of modern software.
- MarcusE1W 6y ago
  2GB is ok for what you normally do with a phone or tablet. Manage small chunks of data, writing, browsing, little development, some games. I have used the Original Pinebook for about a year as my main private laptop and can say it was an enjoyable experience. Of course it depends on what you want to do, it’s not high end but definitely usable and fun.
  - ferzul 6y ago
    a chat program and a music program just started up, not doing anything but idling, nowadays use 500 MiB each. 2 GiB is not enough any more because everyone writes their apps in dom now, because it seems to be the only toolkit with vaguely viable, non-sucky state management libraries, and it just isn't efficient enough. this isn't intrinsic tho (and then yesterday i just tried windows 7 for the first time in a vm with 2 GiB allocated, and it was far snappier than i could have imagined).