08-16-2020, 12:59 PM
(08-14-2020, 04:40 PM)PaulQ Wrote: My Pinebook hasn't shipped yet, but after reading this thread, I have concluded the chance of receiving a faulty power supply with my Pinebook is still a far better deal than the planned obsolescence and personal data mining engineered into nearly every other contemporary laptop, Macbook, and Chromebook computer today.
I ordered a pinebook pro 2 months ago and I bricked it by fiddling around with the uboot process. Nethertheless I was impressed by the overall build quality and ordered a second one. Both are now working well. There are two small things I would consider. I put a nvme disk inside. Even with powersave this reduces battery time a lot. And charging takes a lot of time. So if you need more space better order a 128 GB emmc. Second the boot process from emmc often fails (1 of 3 times). I have a sdcard handy for this case. After some reboots via Ctrl-Alt-Delete it eventually finds the emmc partition. I am sure this will be fixed soon and power saving will be reliable in the future too. I like my pinebook pros, but I dont do numbercrunching, just software development with emacs, smalltalk, python and racket