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The Pinebooks are pretty neat and affordable bits of kit. I got the original Pinebook, and it came with a free upgrade from whichever display they originally sa
by johnklos 2y ago
The Pinebooks are pretty neat and affordable bits of kit. I got the original Pinebook, and it came with a free upgrade from whichever display they originally said to a full 1080 resolution display. The limiting factor for the original is likely the single gigabyte of memory, but so long as I'm not running a popular browser, it's quick and the battery lasts forever (well, for easily more than six hours of constant use).
The article points out that there's good support in NetBSD for the hardware, which is good to know. Between the article and my own experience with various PINE64 hardware, aside from wifi (which is the bane of all open source OSes, apparently), everything works well, and PINE64 comes across as quite open and welcoming to all open source OSes, not just the popular ones. If I need a laptop with more memory, I'd definitely get a Pinebook Pro.