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Yeah, probably about as well as any of the quicker RPi clones would, which is pretty decent for light tasks. $100 is about as much as you’d pay for one of those
by justwalt 6y ago
Yeah, probably about as well as any of the quicker RPi clones would, which is pretty decent for light tasks. $100 is about as much as you’d pay for one of those plus a touchscreen anyways, so it sounds like a fair deal.
- rjsw 6y agoI only have one Pine device, a Pinebook. The build quality seems good to me, it isn't just a collection of components thrown together.
- elliekelly 6y agoMind if I ask what you use it for? I’m always tempted to buy one but I don’t really know what I would do with it besides stick it in my drawer of cool but not particularly useful tech that gathers dust. At least it’s cheaper than my Google Glass and GoPro...
- rjsw 6y agoI use it for ARM64 software development, have a USB ethernet dongle and an external disk enclosure containing a small SSD. Have used it as my only laptop a few times too but I mostly work from home.
- gspr 6y agoI'm so close to buying a Pinebook, and I know that everyone wants "just one more feature", but jesus, 4 GB or RAM?! If it had at least 8 I'd buy it in a sec. But 4 just won't cut it (thank you, modern web).
- NikolaeVarius 6y ago4gb is fine if you run a lighter DE. I program go/python/c++ directly on a Jetson Nano w/ vim and firefox and haven't had any huge issues
- gspr 6y agoWhile I'm not one of those people who work in the browser (bleurgh!), I find that it's a much bigger resource hog than my DM. My KDE desktop takes around half a gig, but it's Firefox that used to bring my old 4GB laptop to its knees.
- zozbot234 6y agoOTOH a touchscreen-enabled device is exactly where a heavier DE might make some sense. GNOME3 is still only borderline-usable on 2GB of RAM (though you can obviously work around this by adding swap).
- yjftsjthsd-h 6y agoI don't think that heavier = better at tablet UI; yes, GNOME3 went that direction, but so did matchbox.
- brnt 6y agoGnome 3 is since a year or so the memory-heaviest Linux DE. You may get a better experience with another DE!
- Lex-2008 6y agodid you see https://sr.ht/~mil/Sxmo/ https://sr.ht/~mil/Sxmo/? I haven't tried it yet, but it looks light and touch-oriented.
- kick 6y ago4GB is actually more usable than you'd think; most web browsers have performance settings that make the experience just fine with even a hundred tabs on low-end devices (Chromium gets more points than Firefox on this for its toaster mode), and outside of web browsers, there's not much else to worry about. If you set it up with one of the 'in-RAM compressed swap' solutions available like you should, you probably won't ever notice it, but even then it's still really fairly comfy.
- rjsw 6y agoThe small RAM sizes on these devices is a limit of the SoC. The RK3399 in the Pinebook Pro can only drive 4GB of RAM. The A64 in the original Pinebook and this tablet can use 3GB but that would mean using more memory chips.