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RE: Pinebook Pro Initial Impressions - tsago - 10-24-2019 Haiyoooo, Typing this from my new Pinebook Pro and all that jazz... Impressions The good
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edit2: bonus head-scratcher - In Chromium, the "chrome://settings" tab keeps crashing within a second of fully loading. (was fun trying to sync my profile like this to get my password for the forum) The version is 72, so perhaps a newer one will fix it (78 seems to be the latest)? RE: Pinebook Pro Initial Impressions - fretinator - 10-24-2019 Pro Tip - I found the way to get to the Chrome Settings page is to reboot (makes sure Chromium is really out of memory). Now open a command-line and type chromium-browser. You can then go to the settings page. The settings page isn't working I assume because of something in the command-line below. chromium-browser --disk-cache-size=2147483648 --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS armv7l 6946.63.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/72.0.3626.121 Safari/537.36" (10-24-2019, 02:09 PM)fretinator Wrote: Pro Tip - I found the way to get to the Chrome Settings page is to reboot (makes sure Chromium is really out of memory). Now open a command-line and type chromium-browser. You can then go to the settings page. p.s. - In my case I needed to get to the settings page to turn of the Chrome desktop notifications. They would pop-up but not have a close button nor close on their own. I would open Chrome and half of my screen would be filled with permanent notifications. the only way to close them was to click them, which caused tabs to get opened and sometimes sound to start playing (notification from Youtube). I just turned off desktop notifications from Chrome. RE: Pinebook Pro Initial Impressions - User 6582 - 10-25-2019 Printer Setup using an HP Envy-5530... Turns out this was quite an adventure!! Setup was started with HPLIP, then I had to search through Synaptic using "printer" for a search word. After consulting previous experience, with a large dose of "fingers crossed", I managed to get it up and running. Probably most important was using "root/root" for authorization. "rock" wouldn't give sufficient privileges... It there's way to get a terminal dump to give more useful info, please let me know how and I'll do! :-) RE: Pinebook Pro Initial Impressions - fire219 - 10-26-2019 (10-24-2019, 12:03 PM)tsago Wrote: [*] - The touchpad is drunk. When I'm trying to snipe a few pixels aside (or a few letters in a text), there seems to be an initial "dead zone" where the touchpad ignores my finger. Similarly when I stop from a slow movement, there seems to be a bit of leftover momentum before the mouse stops moving. This makes it feel like the mouse is trailing/lagging behind me. This is a known issue. The firmware for the touchpad is definitely not up to where we want it. There should be an improved firmware ready to be installed soon. RE: Pinebook Pro Initial Impressions - bigCamel - 10-27-2019 It`s been one week since I received my Pinebook Pro. I`m really impressed by the quality and usability Pine64 delivered with the first batch. Housing - Looks and feels great. Display - I love the resolution and the colors and contrast of the IPS panel. It`s pretty bright, too. Keyboard - It`s perfectly adequate. I still like my Cherry Stream 3.0 better, but that comparison is a little unfair. The layout is fine. I`m already quite accustomed to it (coming from a German layout). Touchpad - Feels a bit laggy, as already mentioned in previous posts. Also two-finger taps don`t seem to get recognized. As @fire219 stated, a firmware update is already been worked on. Battery - After the first full charge I used the PBP on two evenings (roughly 2x 3h), playing around, customizing the OS and streaming music with the Nextcloud web frontend and still had 40% charge left. OS - It`s already absolutely usable. Compliments to all contributors! Yes, there are some minor issues, but I`m confident they`ll get ironed out soon. That`s the great thing about the community approach. I really hope this device category is here to stay. A quality device for the open source community. I love it. RE: Pinebook Pro Initial Impressions - Watercourse - 10-27-2019 That's all music to my 'batch 2' ears! RE: Pinebook Pro Initial Impressions - bcnaz - 10-27-2019 (10-25-2019, 12:36 PM)rick1959 Wrote: Printer Setup using an HP Envy-5530... Rick, Just curious, Have you possibly tried a usb (or bluetooth) US style keyboard ? Since I am a hunt and peck type user the keyboard probably will not make much difference... BUT, I am "Curious" Will the OS see it as a US keyboard, or just A keyboard .... hmm...? RE: Pinebook Pro Initial Impressions - warwvister - 10-28-2019 (10-27-2019, 06:14 PM)bcnaz Wrote: Will the OS see it as a US keyboard, or just A keyboard .... hmm...? As there is Linux inside, you could probably choose any keyboard layout you want. RE: Pinebook Pro Initial Impressions - User 6582 - 10-28-2019 (10-27-2019, 06:14 PM)bcnaz Wrote:(10-25-2019, 12:36 PM)rick1959 Wrote: Printer Setup using an HP Envy-5530... I will try a wireless keyboard in a little while (US) and see what happens. I did notice that when using different programs, which I foolishly didn't keep track of :-(, that it seemed like the keyboard responded with different key characters....Anyone else notice this? :-) RE: Pinebook Pro Initial Impressions - User 6582 - 10-28-2019 (10-27-2019, 06:14 PM)bcnaz Wrote:(10-25-2019, 12:36 PM)rick1959 Wrote: Printer Setup using an HP Envy-5530... OK, using a Logitech K400r wireless keyboard, I'm typing now. By all accounts, all keys appear to function as a traditional US keyboard.Plugged in the USB dongle and started typing.....After I turned the keyboard on... |