04-15-2022, 03:41 AM
Hi all, the PineBook Ultrapro ;-) RK3588 laptop:
The RK3588 laptop will be an incredible improvement over the previous PineBook Pro RK3399 laptop.
I am still surprised that the Chromebooks market is so unserious and immature as it is, I am not aware of a single one of them that has an M.2 slot and also is well adapted to custom operating system installation like the PineBooks are. Also some ARM laptops use Qualcomm which is too bad also, https://semiaccurate.com/2021/12/01/qual...to-deploy/ . Strange that the whole Chromebooks industry sucks as much as it does, they are bad products.
- It must be equipped with 32GB RAM. The same with the new Pine QuartzPro RK3588 SBC - it must have a 32GB RAM option.
- I hope the new RK3588 PineBook will have USB-C power delivery based power charging, so you can use one charger for all electronics.
Carrying around a specialized barrel charger for the PineBook makes no sense at all.
- There has been great ignorance about security at Pine until now - for the new laptop and SBC please offer hardware disable of the WIFI especially, with a hardware PIN/DIP switch.
Extra bonus if there would be hardware write protection of the onboard flash.
- I would be glad to pay extra for on-board 10gbit RJ45 ethernet. (Mini ethernet connector is fine.) Two of the four PCIe v4 lanes may be used for this purpose.
In this case, the laptop's M.2 connector would get two PCIe v4 lanes which is still more than enough - it's 16gbps which is 2GB/sec.
The RK3588 laptop will be an incredible improvement over the previous PineBook Pro RK3399 laptop.
I am still surprised that the Chromebooks market is so unserious and immature as it is, I am not aware of a single one of them that has an M.2 slot and also is well adapted to custom operating system installation like the PineBooks are. Also some ARM laptops use Qualcomm which is too bad also, https://semiaccurate.com/2021/12/01/qual...to-deploy/ . Strange that the whole Chromebooks industry sucks as much as it does, they are bad products.