EDIT: After talking with the sales team, this issue is probably fixed. If you still encounter it, please PM me with details (including your country) so I can relay it on.
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Hey everybody! The first set of coupons just went out to users -- check your emails if you were really early.
There's one main issue early buyers have discovered: Getting a message on the store along the lines of "There are no shipping methods available..."
If you get this message, remove any accessories you have in your shopping cart. The issue is caused by the shipping limitations on devices with lithium batteries. You can order these accessories separately without issue.
Everyone is welcome to join us, talk FOSS, play with the latest PINE64 toys* and enjoy a day out (hopefully in the sun). The place offers soft-drinks as well as beer and they've got food as well for those who wish to have lunch there.
Obviously nothing holding us there - so once we meet and wish to change the venue, then we can do that as well.
Please let me know on here if you're coming so I can give the place a rough estimate of how many we'll be.
Looking forward to it!
* I'll have the Pinebook Pro prototype with me, @tllimmay have an early prototype of the PinePhone with him as well as some other hardware we haven't talked about yet.
On the 25th, the forum preorders ended and public preorders began. At this point, all coupons have gone out. If you did not receive yours or it has expiry issues, you need to email pinebook@pine64.org about it by this Friday (the 30th).
First batch units (the first 100) are now in production! They will be shipping out very soon.
Second batch units will start production in late September or early October. The majority of these units are 128GB, and are going to the rest of those who entered the forum preorder system. However, about 200 units from this batch were not claimed in the early preorders, and instead are being sold as 64GB units in the first public preorders.
Previous Update from August 22nd:
: Alright, so here's the current status for forum preorders!
First batch coupons (early 100 units) went out long ago. If you missed it, you'll need to message sales@pine64.org about getting a new coupon. The actual Pinebook Pros should also start shipping very soon.
Second batch coupons (1000 units) are going out now! Over the next few days, check your email inboxes.
In either case, keep in mind that your coupon is only good for 48 hours after receiving it. This is why first batch users need to get a replacement one.
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I'm starting to see a lot of users starting to get worried about how they have not gotten their coupon yet.
It's not because we don't like you or that you were too late -- No one has gotten one yet! However, as of right now, everyone who has registered into the system will get one!As of about midnight UTC on the 26th, the first batch of coupons did go out!
The sales team is in UTC+8 -- When preorders opened, it was 8pm their time, and as of my typing this (10 hours later), it is 5am! When they get back to work, that is when you might be able to start expecting coupons.
As for the distribution of coupons, I'll lay it out for you:
First early batch is 100 units. About 10 of those are going to developers. That means about 90 will be available for pre-orders. Coupons will be sent to the first 90 users to registered into the system, starting tonight (in Europe and US time zones) and over the next 72 hours or so. Those units will ship in about 4 weeks from now.
The second batch is much larger -- 1000 units, all dedicated to preorders. These coupons will start being sent out in a couple weeks and stretch out to about 6-7 weeks from now. Units ship about 8-10 weeks from now.
As we eagerly await the arrival of our new Pinebook Pro's and work out the kinks, I am curious to know;
What are your anticipated first projects you want to work on?
Besides general testing, I look forward to having a console to monitor via VNC/RDP some test equipment I have set up on SBCs around my lab. Nothing too exciting for now. We will see how testing goes!
I think it would be really interesting to do some work with RISC V, would be awesome to run open source software on open source hardware, is there in potential for this in the near future?
I'm curious if anyone's aware of any specific intentions to bring an Android build to the Pinebook Pro? Would love on to keep on an SD card and use during traveling.
Through a few ways, the link for the preorder page leaked out and people started entering hours, and sometimes even days before preorders were actually open.
This had been expected, and accounted for. Any information in the system before it went live (July 25th, noon UTC/1pm BST/6am EDT) was wiped, to keep things fair.
If you entered the system early, you will need to enter again now. If you are in doubt, it doesn't hurt to try again. If you were already in the queue, it will simply tell you so.
Does the Pinebook Pro have a way to access a serial console for debugging? I see this in the pinebook section of the store, but it doesn't say whether the same cable also works with the Pinebook Pro.
