Will Pinetab 2 spare parts be available?
08-14-2023, 06:18 AM
(08-14-2023, 03:39 AM)vatin Wrote: Will Pinetab 2 spare parts be available?
As to make this tablet truly sustainable....
Irrespective of any promises made, history gives us a pretty reliable answer. The answer is no. The Pine Tab 1 got no support past the first production run. I have a Pine Tab 1 that needs a new motherboard, otherwise is fine.
My expectation is that there is some loose promise, maybe a few more production runs, then a PineTab 3 gets announced and all support for PineTab 2 gets dropped. If you look inside the tablet there is zero upgrade path - they could have added support for a CM4 compute module (or one of their own modules) for example, but decided not to.
It is demotivating to invest time into a platform that becomes immediately obsolete.
