09-01-2022, 01:19 PM
(08-31-2022, 12:22 PM)commiecam Wrote: That's the reason I have a Pinebook Pro. Quiet! No fan. As far as what you NEED, I suggest that a whole lot of people consider what they really NEED. I'm not talking about extreme gamers, who live and die, vicariously on cpu power. The computer aboard the Apollo modules that went to the moon would today be put to shame by any cheap pocket calcuulator. I did my college papers on green on black terminal hooked to a HP-1000 computer with a 32 bit cpu running at about 1MHz, with 3.3 MB of RAM... WHILE it was also acting as our station's data collector and network hub, while being used by six other staff as well All I'm saying is that seldom, if ever, is a cpu in any modern computer being run much above idling. The first novel that I wrote, Caribbean Ventures, was written on an early, used Pentium llaptop running Red Hat and I used the vi editor. No 440 cubic inch V8, no tailfins, no sound system. Now I can do the same work in a good word processor on a colour screen while listening to classical music while news headlines run across the bottom of the screen, and all for $219.00.
The problem is that modern software got bloated and slow, technically the Pinebook OG should be more than good enough running the right software. I did use my Pine Tab to build a few pieces of software that currently run in production, by using a lightweight window manager and stripped out browser.
So the point is, if you want to run modern software, and modern software is written to use all resources available to it, then unless your machine has similar resources to that of the average machine, it will simply fall short. To my original point, even if they developed a Pinebook Pro Ultra, it would just be a matter of time before it is obsolete again.
This is why i suggest upgrade-able and maintainable systems being the way forwards. The ability to swap out the mainboard SBC/module would really be a game changer.
