The Pine Note is in a rather primitive state, they started shipping well before there was a mostly-functional OS. Beautiful piece of hardware, but I wouldn't expect to use it day to day unless just as a reader or taking notes and not expecting most functions to work.
The PIneTab 2 out of the box is better than other brand new PINE64 releases in terms of stability, but wifi is not right (I think there are some solutions in the rpi community for this wifi that we can adapt from, eventually) and neither of the 2 popular external wifi cards I bought for the purpose are usable... yet. I'm using the Ethernet dongle I got with my OG pinebook (only 100Mbit I think but it works at least), so I've been able to run a couple of updates. Once wifi is up, I will probably use it a lot more as it feels and looks great, the keyboard case works well and the experience has been smoother for me than any phones, tablets or notebooks I've had from PINE64 so far (I mean out of the box, the other devices have had more time to mature so many things have smoothed up). Very much looking forward to seeing this thing mature and improve, the quality and experience are very encouraging and at this price point, it's really a great little device that will make lots of fans. I just wouldn't try to use it full service yet.
The PIneTab 2 out of the box is better than other brand new PINE64 releases in terms of stability, but wifi is not right (I think there are some solutions in the rpi community for this wifi that we can adapt from, eventually) and neither of the 2 popular external wifi cards I bought for the purpose are usable... yet. I'm using the Ethernet dongle I got with my OG pinebook (only 100Mbit I think but it works at least), so I've been able to run a couple of updates. Once wifi is up, I will probably use it a lot more as it feels and looks great, the keyboard case works well and the experience has been smoother for me than any phones, tablets or notebooks I've had from PINE64 so far (I mean out of the box, the other devices have had more time to mature so many things have smoothed up). Very much looking forward to seeing this thing mature and improve, the quality and experience are very encouraging and at this price point, it's really a great little device that will make lots of fans. I just wouldn't try to use it full service yet.
------
it doesn't get happy
it doesn't get sad
it just runs programs
it doesn't get happy
it doesn't get sad
it just runs programs
