Battery and hard drive upgrades et al.
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(09-15-2019, 06:24 PM)Watercourse Wrote: "PINEBOOK Pro
A Powerful, Metal and Open Source ARM 64-Bit Laptop for Work, School or Fun
The Pinebook Pro is meant to deliver solid day-to-day Linux or *BSD experience and to be a compelling alternative to mid-ranged Chromebooks that people convert into Linux laptops."
Really, folks. We're not buying the Millennial Falcon here, but is IS likely to be a solid day-to-day ticket out of the Evil Empire(s). Swing with it!

Yep, as long as people understand what they're getting into and don't come at it like a typical entitled consumer where they expect a champagne and caviar breakfast at a five star restaurant when what they actually paid for was a good omelette and a cup of coffee at a well liked diner.

A lot of people who have never had anything but a cheap plastic laptop are potentially in for a real nice surprise with that magnesium alloy body. Premium bodies tend to have different/better feel to their "drive" than cheap plastic laptops. The body doesn't just help looks or provide more durability, in my experience they tend to change the feel of basic use things like typing and the trackpad in positive ways. 

The PBP has the potential to reduce waste far more than 99 percent of other laptops out there. How many times have we been forced to buy whole new laptops that had perfectly good screens and bodies to get faster processors? The promise of the PBP is that we'll be able to upgrade these things down the road to Pine64s future flagship processors/boards. 

Not just with upgrades, repairs too... board dies? Trivial replacement. Screen breaks? Trivial replacement. Keyboard worn out? Trivial replacement. The user serviceability of the design based on what has been shared so far, points to being able to keep things going for years longer than other laptops. That reduces waste far more than being able to change the storage size of a finger nail size chip at the time you order.

I'm really excited about what this laptop represents. That second batch can't come soon enough.


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RE: Battery and hard drive upgrades et al. - by odinson - 09-15-2019, 09:32 PM

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