You know, there's something good to be said about lightweight netbooks like PineBook, even though it's currently out of stock: https://www.pine64.org/pinebook-p

You know, there's something good to be said about lightweight netbooks like PineBook, even though it's currently out of stock: https://www.pine64.org/pinebook-pro/ https://www.pine64.org/pinebook-pro/ I actually got a vaguely similar x86 based netbook a few years back, a slightly older release of this: https://techbite.eu/en/laptopy/laptop-zin-3-14-1 https://techbite.eu/en/laptopy/laptop-zin-3-14-1 It cost me about 210 euros (235-240 dollars) and a rough comparison would look like this: - PineBook has a 1920x1080 display, the laptop i got comes in both 1366x768 and 1920x1080 variations - PineBook has 6 ARM cores (4 x A53 and 2 x A72), it has 2 x86 cores (N4020) - both have 4GB of LPDDR4 RAM - PineBook has ARM Mali T860 MP4 GPU, it has Intel HD Graphics 600 - PineBook has 64GB of eMMC storage, it has 128GB of storage - both support additional M.2 storage In my eyes, the biggest benefits for both would be: - small form factor (fits in a bag) - light weight (carried mine primarily for not taking) - low power usage (no more laptop batteries that run out in 2 hours) - enough for common tasks (browsed web and worked on documents, did light development while taking a bus or on vacation) However, the biggest drawbacks could be: - inadequate CPU performance for most of the more "serious" tasks out there, e.g. number crunching - inadequate GPU performance for certain tasks (e.g. high definition videos, though possibly a bigger problem with ARM as some commenters pointed out, or any sort of gaming with either) - somewhat poorer thermals under load (probably more of a problem with x86 rather than ARM, though i could be wrong) - limited I/O (vs 4 monitors connected to my PC right now) - limited hardware/software support (in the case of the budget x86 notebook i still haven't managed to get the fingerprint scanner working in Linux, had to get and compile Wi-Fi drivers off of GitHub, in the case of ARM there will probably be challenges with porting some software or finding precompiled releases, or even just Docker containers) - build quality (case flexing, overall durability, look and feel of the keyboard vs a full sized mechanical one for a PC) In short, it's nice to see computing be made more affordable and accessible (both in regards to x86 and ARM) and many of the drawbacks aren't necessarily dealbreakers for many of the use cases out there. I would have loved to have something like this be one of my first computers, provided that i'd have the resources to figure out how to fix all of the common (probably software related) things that could break.