Pinebook Pro?

[eding42]

Thanks for the clear answers. I understand the $200 price tag, but :

1- was to avoid changing the whole mother board instead of just changing the "sopine", a "bundle" can be available
2- those having an interest into embedded could always get them refurbished / second hand from those who upgraded
3- adding a few led under the keyboard shouldn't cost that much more
4- yeah, that one was just for fun

5- if you add "ITX holes", maybe the motherboard can be fitted into a regular casing, for those interested
6- adding a slot/sodimm cpu to get a second hexacore cpu (doing smp clustering into the notebook for performance)
7- and 8- yeah, that also was to replace faulting parts with new ones without changing/dumping everything

Regarding this project : https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/novena

I think even a $300 price tag remains viable (come on, $300 for a FHD IPS hexacore 14" notebook, who would be that picky ?) for a little more versatile setting, allowing you not just fitting a Pinebook Pro case, but perhaps doing much more with the parts.

What about the idea to fit the PineTab in place of the keyboard to get a dual screen (dual cpu ?) notebook ?

Kochise

I feel like a 300 dollar pricetag would be pushing it a little bit too much. At that price, there are actually some pretty compelling Chromebooks.

One of Pinebook's original characteristics that stood out to me was how damn cheap it was, in comparison with other more traditional OEMs. Adding another 100 dollars will yes, improve the quality of the components of the machine, maybe even without sacrificing value. But doing that removes one of the unique advantages Pine has in the laptop space.