The Pinebook Pro Preorder System!

[Novadale]

So while we are waiting... I'd love to chat about what all of us planning on doing with our Pinebook Pros.  If you are replacing something else with it, what are you replacing?

Personally I've been trying to transition all of my hardware to low powered ARM devices in an effort to both reduce my environmental impact and to try and do more with less.  As a professional software developer, I have recently realized how wasteful we tend to be.  Prior to this I decommissioned my Intel based desktop "server" with Ubuntu in favor of four ODroid XU4Qs running Armbian.  Expanding this project to encompass my personal laptop is the primary reason that I'm interested in the PBP.  I plan on attempting to replace my Purism Librem 15 running Arch with the PBP.  The PBP is by far the most promising Linux compatible ARM laptop to come along yet and I figure with enough time and effort I can make it work.

I replaced my last laptop which was a HP EliteBook 2730p with a Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition. There were times I regretted it since I was locked to android and all the Linux projects for the specific device kind of died out. Linux on Android / Complete Linux Installer was not the same. I will spare you the details of my issues with that tablet/android lol. Anyways non removable battery that started expanding and bulged the screen out. In my haste to attempt to remove the battery (without the proper tools because I was worried about the battery catching fire) I ended up breaking the screen. 

So yeah waiting to get a Pinebook Pro to replace the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition tablet that died. I was pretty much just using it as a media player these days watching Netflix, YouTube and Amazon Prime and rarely used the Wacom powered screen for drawing/notes anymore. Wasn't really aware of Pine64 until I saw reviews of the Pinebook. I am a windows scrub that has dabbled with Linux and look forward to having a Linux powered laptop. My first Linux experience was with Corel Linux (based on Debian Slink) tried running Debian when I bought my new gaming PC ended up going back to Windows because of some performance issues with some directx games. It was prior to me learning about DXVK. I also messed up and missed the preorder window so I will have to wait until Aug 25th when preorders open for the general public.