Received the PBP today, and it is the birthday gift to myself that I was expecting =)
If there is a sticker on the palm rest when you get yours, take it off carefully or you may mar the finish.
It came fully charged, to turn on press and hold for about a second.
I am an ANSI keyboard person, but am quickly adjusting to the ISO layout. The key to happy typing is to keep palms away from the touchpad, or even to turn the touchpad off. Otherwise you will miss key presses.
The privacy 'switches' are a cool enhancement, to enable wifi after disabling will require reboot.
The display bezel on my unit slightly pinches the display causing screen deformation at the edges where pinching occurs, but this is only noticable when the screen is dark. I will investigate this further later, but it isn't a high priority to me. Otherwise the display is perfect, no dead pixels.
Luke and mrfixit have done a great job with the desktop environment shipped. All I have had a chance to test so far are YouTube in chromium, the video is great and I found sound acceptable through the speakers and great through headphones. There does seem to be an issue currently with the microphone(s) and the webcam, but that too is not high on my list of priorities.
It appears the customization of the desktop environment is localized to the 'rock' account.
For my use case(s), the Pinebook Pro cannot be beat. The design is what I expected, it feels and looks good for the price point. Kudos to the Pine64 team!
Update: 1 NOV 2019, 12:50 PM EST
Tested all ports:
Update: 3 NOV 2019 11:00 PM EST
Tested serial cable today. Works well, but USB connector contacts require fiddling to make solid contact. Will look at that later.
Web cam functions well now. In terminal, ran to test:
$ mplayer tv://
Boots off micro SD card.
If there is a sticker on the palm rest when you get yours, take it off carefully or you may mar the finish.
It came fully charged, to turn on press and hold for about a second.
I am an ANSI keyboard person, but am quickly adjusting to the ISO layout. The key to happy typing is to keep palms away from the touchpad, or even to turn the touchpad off. Otherwise you will miss key presses.
The privacy 'switches' are a cool enhancement, to enable wifi after disabling will require reboot.
The display bezel on my unit slightly pinches the display causing screen deformation at the edges where pinching occurs, but this is only noticable when the screen is dark. I will investigate this further later, but it isn't a high priority to me. Otherwise the display is perfect, no dead pixels.
Luke and mrfixit have done a great job with the desktop environment shipped. All I have had a chance to test so far are YouTube in chromium, the video is great and I found sound acceptable through the speakers and great through headphones. There does seem to be an issue currently with the microphone(s) and the webcam, but that too is not high on my list of priorities.
It appears the customization of the desktop environment is localized to the 'rock' account.
For my use case(s), the Pinebook Pro cannot be beat. The design is what I expected, it feels and looks good for the price point. Kudos to the Pine64 team!
Update: 1 NOV 2019, 12:50 PM EST
Tested all ports:
- USB 3.0 and 2.0, successfully detects and mounts flash drive, speed not tested
- USB C, successfully charges phone, other functional not tested
- Power, successfully charges PBP when power source attached
- Audio, headphones work as expected
- uSD, accepts card, card is successfully mounted and detected
- All work as expected
- USB eMMC reader AND 32GB eMMC module, module successfully detected and mounted when reader inserted into port
- 1M USB to barrel, power cord, successfully powers PBP when inserted into USB power source
- Pinebook serial cable, instructions specific to previous Pinebook, unable to test
- M.2/NGFF NVMe SSD Interface Adapter, unable to test pending receipt of fix
Update: 3 NOV 2019 11:00 PM EST
Tested serial cable today. Works well, but USB connector contacts require fiddling to make solid contact. Will look at that later.
Web cam functions well now. In terminal, ran to test:
$ mplayer tv://
Boots off micro SD card.