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It's great for 200 USD. Of country it's not going keep up with a 2000 USD MacBook Pro, but I doubt that's what they aimed at and the mid-size laptop market is p

It's great for 200 USD. Of country it's not going keep up with a 2000 USD MacBook Pro, but I doubt that's what they aimed at and the mid-size laptop market is pretty saturated. > I personally think they aimed a little too low on hardware specs. I don't think so. The problems seem to come from more resource hungry applications (yes, that's slack) and it's not much worse than what we had a few years ago with hdd laptops. If you're poorer or in need of a cheap replacement, it's great and priced exactly right.

Havoc 6y ago
The target audience is developers though (for now) not poor people. I don’t see developers sticking with it long term (and say contributing fixes) if they get frustrated by everything being annoyingly slow (eg browser tab switching)
- stefan_ 6y ago
  Yes, as a platform to develop. Think of it like a dev board with a permanently attached display and keyboard.
  - Havoc 6y ago
    Yeah I get that. To iron out bugs you really want devs using it though. I like the concept. Just think they missed a trick there.
- quaa55 6y ago
  While I do enjoy using my Pinebook Pro I usually grab the iPad or Thinkpad, but the pinebook does get a good amount of use. The pinebook is faster than i figured, but it is slow although not annoying slow. Storage is slow and they have m.2 adapters if you are cool with more power usage. The ultimate number one thing to do with this device is turn off tap to click. With that off the trackpad is okayish but still crap. i actually enjoy tap to click on Apple and Thinkpad trackpads. The keyboard is good enough and better than most laptops. not mechanical keyboard good but good in a 50g sponge-ish way. Display is a typical 1080p matte IPS screen (aka a minimum requirement for display specs for some but still within the range although at the low end.) I will say it is valuable to have as a developer. I find it helpful to work off of a slow device sometimes to test how your widget will work as you might run into issues with timers or other weirdness, and aarch64 is somewhat becoming more common - so it might be good to test on that platform too.
- quaa55 6y ago
  In addition to what I mentioned, the pbp is faster than a pi4, so there's that too.

Havoc 6y ago

The target audience is developers though (for now) not poor people. I don’t see developers sticking with it long term (and say contributing fixes) if they get frustrated by everything being annoyingly slow (eg browser tab switching)

stefan_ 6y ago
Yes, as a platform to develop. Think of it like a dev board with a permanently attached display and keyboard.
- Havoc 6y ago
  Yeah I get that. To iron out bugs you really want devs using it though. I like the concept. Just think they missed a trick there.
quaa55 6y ago
While I do enjoy using my Pinebook Pro I usually grab the iPad or Thinkpad, but the pinebook does get a good amount of use. The pinebook is faster than i figured, but it is slow although not annoying slow. Storage is slow and they have m.2 adapters if you are cool with more power usage. The ultimate number one thing to do with this device is turn off tap to click. With that off the trackpad is okayish but still crap. i actually enjoy tap to click on Apple and Thinkpad trackpads. The keyboard is good enough and better than most laptops. not mechanical keyboard good but good in a 50g sponge-ish way. Display is a typical 1080p matte IPS screen (aka a minimum requirement for display specs for some but still within the range although at the low end.) I will say it is valuable to have as a developer. I find it helpful to work off of a slow device sometimes to test how your widget will work as you might run into issues with timers or other weirdness, and aarch64 is somewhat becoming more common - so it might be good to test on that platform too.
quaa55 6y ago
In addition to what I mentioned, the pbp is faster than a pi4, so there's that too.