Hey all, just a quick reminder, community Pinebook Pro pre-orders with the 128GB eMMC upgrade finish tomorrow. Starting the 25th, public pre-oders begin, which means everyone will be able to place a pre-order. Mind you, we expect this production batch to sell out quickly, but another batch is scheduled for early-to-mid September, so don't worry.

All Pinebook Pro units pre-odered after August 24th will ship in the default eMMC configuration regardless of if you've registered on the forum prior to July 1st 2019 or not.

We can see Weight: 1.26 kg (2.78 lbs)


And then, below in Additional Information
 section: Weight 1.880 kg  


Is the right weight somewhere in the middle ? 

On the Spec page of the Pinebook Pro it says "USB-C (Data, Power and Video out)", leading me to think that it might mean it supports data out, power out, and video out, but what about Power in?

I'm curious if I'll be able to charge it via the usb-c port instead of the barrel port.

Thanks for any help!

Edit: Never mind, on the store page it listed more information on the port "USB 3.0 Type-C ports with alt-mode display out and 15W 5V 3A charge". So it does appear capable of charging through the USB-C port.

Hello everyone, hope I''m posting this in the right section. Need some help on two things, I have a Rockpro64 with a Roshambo case and recalbox OS installed, I've tried a generic WiFi module 802,11n but when I switch enable WiFi it doesn't do anything.. any idea how can I get it to work? I know there is a dedicated module but I want to avoid to spend extra money. I have tried running the terminal remotely, but no luck  don't really know what commands I should run
And the other thing is how can I upload ROMs in the external SSD as i bought the mini cartridge as well. When I move ROMs is like moving them in mini SD, do i need to use a converter and plug the SSD to my PC to transfer files?
Thanks in advance ✌️✌️

I just want an idea how much of an issue this is.
Thanks.

Hi all
I have just gotten my coupon and I am very excited but moving to the US came with extended bureaucracy, i am still learning to navigate around.
I have been trying to figure out the potential additional cost but I am getting numbers going up to $380 with all fees and stuff. 

Could someone who dealt with this before send me some guidelines?
Thanks in advance.

Due to *life* I'll be moving around the same time that my Pro will be delivered and so I need to get a P.O. box delivery. Can someone tell me the physical dimensions of the shipping box that the Pro is shipped in? My apologies if this is shown somewhere but I didn't find it in a couple minutes of searching.

Thanks!

For those of you Reddit users, there is now an official PINE64 subreddit.
This subreddit concerns all PINE64 devices and is controlled and moderated by us.

Hi every one!


I'm a school teacher and would like use PINE H64 “Model B”-3GB (with mali t720) as PC in school but I must know some details.
How smoothly works:

- tinkercad
- minecraft
- youtube 720p
- free cad (from v16)
- Unity (or other similar game engine)
- arduino IDE 
- python ide (eclipse, pyCharm or similar )
- Scracth mit 3.0 from web browser or as local program.

If someone could test it for me it will be great!

Greetings all!



This post is mainly directed at the owners/operators/admins/mods/etc. of the entire Pine64 project, but I welcome community feedback as well.  The question is simple: Just how open source is Pine64 anyway?

Some context:
A friend of mine is absolutely in love with the concept of the Librem 5 phone, as well as pretty much everything else that organization does.  My understanding there is that that org has gone above and beyond the reaches of the entire bloody galaxy to open source their hardware and software.  As an example, not only is all of their Software FOSS, and not only do they provide datasheets (and I'm pretty sure schematics), but they've even collaborated with chip manufacturers to ensure components are FOSS-respecting, removed IME code from their intel CPUs (I think), written their own BIOS and UEFI bootloader, and I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that they replaced microcode on something somewhere.

But, as expected, this attention to minute detail comes at a cost, and their products are rather expensive.

So, Pine64 organization, I ask you: Just how open source is Pine64 anyway?  You've certainly avoided the issues of intel's IME by using a different chip on your products.  Do you, too, speak with your chip manufacturers?  Is it a non-issue because everything is an SOC which is itself FOSS?  Do you have any sort of custom super swanky bootloader?

I ask all of this, because the aforementioned friend also told me that he just didn't get a good vibe from you folks (several years ago when he first encountered you).  I have no such qualms (I encountered you much more recently), and he couldn't put his finger on what exactly he took issue with, but I'm mostly curious to see how you would respond to such an initial reaction.

Thank you all for your awesome work!