Pinebook Pro?

[hmuller]

Luke had me at "black magnesium alloy body." The other specs look great too. This is going to be my birthday present to myself.

A very nice assortment of products coming out!

[Kochise]

Again, at least matte screen, having a "black mirror" front of me is a pain. And is backlit keyboard can be bought as an option for say $20, I'm for it.

[coot]

I found this article about the new Pinebook Pro (link), and I was interested in it. Does anybody know more about this new device?
Like the estimated launch date, etc.? The article said that the Pinebook Pro would have 64Gb storage, 802.11ac Wifi, 4Gb ram and a Hexa-core CPU?
But what interested me the most was a Nvme slot. What are your thoughts about the Pinebook Pro?

Yes, I've registered to the forums purely for this, I watched in anticipation of the Original Pinebook, but at the time I needed a daily driver and from what little I've heard the PineBook Pro could fill the void... The article I read mentioned 2019 Q3 or Q4.

I too registered  primarily for this product and am thinking of this as an alternative to a new Chromebook which I have been considering. I am comfortable with debian and ubuntu and hope these or a derivative of these will be available with a lighter desktop interface such as XFCE or LXDE. Old school but very light weight.

[thomasd]

I'm also here to be one of the gang that registered only for the pinebook pro

As a sysadmin, I really love Debian and have long been looking for a premium but low cost laptop for work/travel that's running it.

This ticks all the boxes! However, is it possible to replace the mmc with ssd inside the laptop? Because mmc is not know for it's performance

[evilbunny]

Is it possible to replace the mmc with ssd inside the laptop? Because mmc is not know for it's performance

There is a NMVE port on the board for faster storage.

[thomasd]

I found this article about the new Pinebook Pro (link), and I was interested in it. Does anybody know more about this new device?
Like the estimated launch date, etc.? The article said that the Pinebook Pro would have 64Gb storage, 802.11ac Wifi, 4Gb ram and a Hexa-core CPU?
But what interested me the most was a Nvme slot. What are your thoughts about the Pinebook Pro?

Yes, I've registered to the forums purely for this, I watched in anticipation of the Original Pinebook, but at the time I needed a daily driver and from what little I've heard the PineBook Pro could fill the void... The article I read mentioned 2019 Q3 or Q4.

I too registered  primarily for this product and am thinking of this as an alternative to a new Chromebook which I have been considering. I am comfortable with debian and ubuntu and hope these or a derivative of these will be available with a lighter desktop interface such as XFCE or LXDE. Old school but very light weight.

Is it possible to replace the mmc with ssd inside the laptop? Because mmc is not know for it's performance

There is a NMVE port on the board for faster storage.

Yes, but is there space for the actual disk inside it?

[jddelaro]

Hey Luke, 

First, I think what y'all are doing is flat out awesome and I've been thinking about getting something exactly like what is proposed for a while. We stumbled on this and I think our entire DevOps team is going to buy at least one of the Pros.  Maybe I am just tired and missed it but I haven't seen Centos (7) mentioned. Any chance for that support? I saw it mentioned for other devices but you never know. Thanks!

Regarding Centos, you could build it yourself using kernel sources from ayufan or mrxifit2001, or even use armbian for this purpose. It shouldn't be too difficult, but again no official support (that we're aware of) is planned. Then again ... nothing is supported until devs get their hands on the device, which won't be for another month or so ; To this end, if you know some Centos devs then you're welcome to point them to this thread - we'd be happy to offer them hw and community would certainly help out getting the OS' running.

Luke, 

Thank you for getting back to me, appreciate the news.  I think I will just end up running some Debian flavor as I don't really know what will happen with Red Hat and/or Centos going forward.  For now, we wait.     Feel free to give us a time horizon and thanks for what y'all are doing!

[chessie]

How/where do we sign up for the PineBook Pro? How does one get to the 'order page'?

[Luke]

How/where do we sign up for the PineBook Pro? How does one get to the 'order page'?

There is no order page. Just stay tuned. There will be a sufficient heads-up period for sign-ups.

[jaylittle]

Just want to chime in and say how excited I am for the Pinebook Pro.  I've personally been making a real effort dump Intel based systems in favor of ARM (both for efficiency's sake as well as power consumption) and laptops are the last remnant of the Intel/x86 brigade for me.