09-09-2019, 12:20 AM
(09-08-2019, 09:03 PM)ikhider Wrote: Ahh, I get it. I thought you could do web dev, word processing, light audio editing, music listening, web browsing, graphics work (with inkscape, scribus, gimp) with this laptop, but it is not really meant for that. It is meant more for tinkering to one's desire, not for 'work' per se. Got it. Okay, well I hope Pine64 will put out something where I can do those things. Then hard drive capacity and extra batteries are sort of moot if you are just tinkering.
You should be able to do all those things on the Pinebook Pro, they're not that intensive. On the other hand I sometimes edit 4K video, I would not attempt this on the PBP since it needs far more RAM.
There's also the question of reliability. Whenever you tinker with something generally the reliability drops and if you need that tool to earn a living that's a bad thing. I eventually stopped using my oneplus one because I'd done something to the radio firmware and couldn't reset so it had a 50:50 chance of receiving calls when they happened. While I'm going to try using my PBP as a daily driver at work, I'll need to keep my current macbook Pro as backup in case I hit bugs or some task that genuinely needs a lot of RAM.
