07-08-2019, 01:51 PM
(07-08-2019, 07:26 AM)LinWinux Wrote: Wow, that sounds really great. Will the PINEBOOK Pro be as functional as any othern "Non-ARM" laptop by being able to connect an external LED display, multiple drives with a powered USB hub, and the ability to simply remove & store the battery when it's not needed i.e. when the user wants to run the laptop as much as possible on the powered cable connection? We have our own home office, so our laptops almost never leave the house.
I'm asking because my wife and I switched to laptops for our computing needs quire a few years ago. But we do attach external devices to them such as display, keyboard, and mouse, as well as primary & back disks via USB. Our displays usually have VGA or HDMI connectors on them. Will the PINEBOOK Pro be able to handle all of that?
External display -- The Pinebook Pro can do Displayport out via the USB-C port. There is no HDMI or VGA. If you really need to use those, adapters exist.
Drives on powered USB hub -- no issue, should work just like any other laptop.
Battery -- the battery is not designed to be removable, and to do so requires taking the entire bottom panel of the laptop off and carefully peeling the battery off double-sided tape. I would not recommend doing so.
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