01-27-2022, 11:42 AM
(01-22-2022, 01:51 PM)commiecam Wrote: By "elsewhere" I was thinking of perhaps India or Singapore, as examples. As for the western hemisphere, Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay come to mind as possible candidates, and if only mechanical fabrication and final assembly are considered, the Freeport free trade zone in The Bahamas could be VERY attractive cost-wise. But I have real fears about both the stability and the viability of both China and Taiwan, and stability is essential to a start-up company, even one with really lovely products and progressive engineering like Pine64. I'm a satisfied customer who's inn the process of replacing his top-grade six year old Pro-grade HP laptop with this Pinebook Pro and seeing no real difference in performance even though the Pinebook is 1/10 the price.
Generally, everything you said seems to make sense, except for this part:
(01-22-2022, 01:51 PM)commiecam Wrote: replacing his top-grade six year old Pro-grade HP laptop with this Pinebook Pro and seeing no real difference in performanceConsidering PBP's performance (both from benchmarks and my personal experience) is somewhere on the similar level to 2007 ThinkPad T60p/T61p (with 4GiB of RAM), 2008 W500 at best, I'd say either your Pro-grade 2015 HP was put together with the lowest specs available, or this comparison speaks poorly for the HP engineering (of which, I admit, I'm not very fond of going on my experience with their Elitebook line), or you never really pushed your HP to its limits to begin with. PBP is cheap, yes, it has that going for it. But if you need a lot of raw performance and you don't care about $ that performance costs - sorry, PBP is just nowhere near the big boys league. My old (2010) W510 runs circles around PBP, so as much as I like Pine64 and their products - they have a loooong way to go before they can really compete with pro-grade hardware.
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