06-11-2021, 01:52 AM
(06-06-2021, 03:19 PM)pixelherodev Wrote: Oh, and I forgot to mention this: "I don't think I've ever gotten close to ten hours" - really? I keep hearing a *lot* about battery issues, but I regularly get thirteen hours or so. I typically use it at low brightness, and 99% of the time, the CPU is as good as idling [text editing, email, etc]. Obviously, when watching movies, or using a lot of wifi, it goes down tremendously, but I almost always have BT disabled, brightness at 40% or less, and so on.
That's very interesting. With no use of the built-in WiFi or BT, a USB 3.0 Ethernet dongle connected, the screen set at high brightness, and rather low CPU usage limited by applying highly restrictive thermal throttling, I don't think I could get more than four hours of battery runtime on my PineBook Pro.
(06-09-2021, 01:43 AM)alchemist Wrote: - accessible reset/recovery buttons (can be holes accessible by hairpins)
That would be a rather neat feature.
(06-09-2021, 01:43 AM)alchemist Wrote: - initial boot console on display
One of your wishes already came to fruition.
Support for the PineBook Pro's video console has been already included in the U-Boot packaged by Manjaro ARM, currently in form of a patch, but the patch should be merged into one of the next releases of U-Boot.