06-23-2020, 06:11 PM
(06-23-2020, 05:09 PM)Der Geist der Maschine Wrote: Hello Syonyk, this is true for the Pine Time. I don't follow the Pine Phone, maybe that's also true for the Pine Phone. As far as I know, the Pinebook Pro is not advertised as developer hardware. Only Ayufan, MrFixIT, Luke and maybe others got developer hardware way over a year ago.
At a maximum, it's still community development hardware. It's possible to use one as a daily driver, but I wouldn't recommend that for someone who was not already a reasonably skilled Linux admin with some hardware experience. There are still plenty of rough edges, like the latest wifi firmware screwing up the wireless connectivity, the blend of things required for deep sleep, and sound not working reliably after that.
I put things like the charging behavior in the "It's still beta" category. The right answer, IMO, would be USB-C power delivery hardware, but that's not what the unit has.
If I load the system up hard, I can get 3.5A out of the battery at around 3.8V - that's 13.5W. It should hold that on the barrel plug, but it's observably not - or it heats up and can't keep up. Not sure which.
There's nothing wrong with that - it's just a design decision they made. But I wouldn't give a PBP to a non-technical friend yet for anything resembling regular use.
