02-22-2021, 01:16 PM
(02-21-2021, 08:37 PM)KC9UDX Wrote: I wonder if it would be possible for future Pinebooks to be designed with the main board in the top half in stead of the bottom. {...} It would make cooling far better.
There is also another problem to consider:
- LCDs tend to not appreciate excessive heat much.
- Pinebook Pro (and future member of that family) tend to have the beefiest possible CPU of their generation (the current PBP didn't go for an Allwinner SoC like PineTab and PinePhone, but for a RK3399) which tend to put out a bit more heat.
(Future models will probably keep the trend, as hinted in the latest blog post. PBP successors won't probably rely on the RK3566 like upcoming Quartz and future PinePhones, but probably on whatever ends up in the RockPro64 successor and is top of the range -- RK3588 maybe.)
Or another way to put: there's an additional reason why current top of the line fanless Apple Mac Book Air put their M1 in the bottom half, unlike iPads.