06-08-2019, 09:44 AM
Are there any estimates on how well the hardware works for presentation use. That is, if you use an adapter and plug it in some random projector (usually with HDMI but sometimes even with VGA) is it expected to work?
(06-08-2019, 09:44 AM)jpakkane Wrote: [ -> ]Are there any estimates on how well the hardware works for presentation use. That is, if you use an adapter and plug it in some random projector (usually with HDMI but sometimes even with VGA) is it expected to work?
(06-08-2019, 10:22 AM)Luke Wrote: [ -> ]This probably answers your question best:
(06-09-2019, 05:10 AM)jpakkane Wrote: [ -> ](06-08-2019, 10:22 AM)Luke Wrote: [ -> ]This probably answers your question best:
Unfortunately not really. Projectors are notoriously fickle. Laptops that work on some monitors and projectors might fail randomly on others. The only real way to know would be to try the actual hardware on a bunch of different projectors and seeing what happens.
(06-09-2019, 08:45 PM)RMJ250 Wrote: [ -> ]The apps I typically use on a desktop, that I have tried, are in the repos for ARM on Raspbian, I guess the same will be available on the Pinebook Pro?
(06-09-2019, 08:45 PM)RMJ250 Wrote: [ -> ]The Raspberry Pi is a little slow for some tasks, would you say the Pinebook Pro will be significantly or slightly faster?
(06-10-2019, 02:28 AM)enip Wrote: [ -> ](06-09-2019, 08:45 PM)RMJ250 Wrote: [ -> ]The apps I typically use on a desktop, that I have tried, are in the repos for ARM on Raspbian, I guess the same will be available on the Pinebook Pro?
Even more than that. If you stick with armbian you'll get packages right from the official debian or ubuntu (there are two armbian flavours) repos aside from a few armbian own packages.
(06-09-2019, 08:45 PM)RMJ250 Wrote: [ -> ]The Raspberry Pi is a little slow for some tasks, would you say the Pinebook Pro will be significantly or slightly faster?
You can ask for real experience in rockpro64 section since it has the same rk3399/4gb ram. Also you can ask owners of Samsung Chromebook Plus V1 (the rk3399 one). Since Samsung Chromebook Plus V2 moved to Celeron 3965Y I might think rk3399 is comparable to extremely low power (the "Y" suffix) recent mobile celerons in computing power.
(06-10-2019, 03:09 AM)RMJ250 Wrote: [ -> ]I found an interesting comparison test here:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k4kMEbeORLo
However the sysbench figures are slightly skewed due to the test changing between versions (Read the comments for explanation)
(02-07-2019, 05:45 AM)soupbowl Wrote: [ -> ](02-06-2019, 03:53 PM)whm1974 Wrote: [ -> ](02-06-2019, 03:24 PM)soupbowl Wrote: [ -> ]Stabbing in the dark, but I think it's because ARM is mostly used in embedded systems, and has only recently began being adopted into other purposes. It weren't too long ago that PowerPC was a growing contender in the server market (and briefly Apple devices), then disappeared.
Will the PineTab adopt the same SD-Card preferential boot? Personally prefer this approach, makes distrohopping really easy.
Maybe they can use LibreBoot and Coreboot?
https://www.coreboot.org/
https://libreboot.org/
Either one would make things way easier for Linux and BSD distros to support ARM devices and PCs.
Will check out Libreboot in some more detail soon. I'm still boggled by the idea of no-BIOS, so I'll need to do some investigating.