I am also very excited about the Pinebook Pro, seems like great specs for the price.
I am not worried about the 4 GB RAM not being expandable. Since the SOC only supports up to 4 GB and the chip itself is not a powerhouse anyways, the use-case for this machine is certainly not heavy software development or something requiring 8-16 GB of RAM and a fast processor. You need to buy a proper dev laptop for that (which is sadly, x64 at the moment).
This machine will be great for mobile activities:
- knock-about browsing/media-viewing machine at home
- ultra mobile machine for casual activities where you woudn't bring an expensive laptop (like outdoor stuff, conventions...etc) and you need low power consumption + usb-c charging (not a psu brick) anyways
- secondary machine at work. e.g. when you have an ultra-restricted work computer in the office with a snooping firewall so that you cannot even check your bank account from them. (using the guest wifi that is not firewalled and proxied so proper https works through them without snooping)
- lightweight software development for ARM (probably manages Android Studio and even Dockerized web app development on simple projects)
I am not worried about the 4 GB RAM not being expandable. Since the SOC only supports up to 4 GB and the chip itself is not a powerhouse anyways, the use-case for this machine is certainly not heavy software development or something requiring 8-16 GB of RAM and a fast processor. You need to buy a proper dev laptop for that (which is sadly, x64 at the moment).
This machine will be great for mobile activities:
- knock-about browsing/media-viewing machine at home
- ultra mobile machine for casual activities where you woudn't bring an expensive laptop (like outdoor stuff, conventions...etc) and you need low power consumption + usb-c charging (not a psu brick) anyways
- secondary machine at work. e.g. when you have an ultra-restricted work computer in the office with a snooping firewall so that you cannot even check your bank account from them. (using the guest wifi that is not firewalled and proxied so proper https works through them without snooping)
- lightweight software development for ARM (probably manages Android Studio and even Dockerized web app development on simple projects)