Pinebook Pro Initial Impressions

[Nappael]

Hello all,

I noticed today that the bottom cover is not flush with the edge of the case on my Pinebook Pro. In particular, on the left edge near the IO. I had a brief look around and so far it seems pretty difficult to get both sides to go home at the same time. Anyone had something like this? I also noticed that one of the plastic standoffs were broken pretty much as soon as I opened the case.

I noticed the same thing on my pinebook pro as well. I haven't even bothered to open it up because I have read posts on here about how hard it is to take the back panel off and don't want to break any of the clips that snap into place. I guess I'll just make do with it. Besides that I have liked this laptop. I've been able to use firefox and chromium and haven't had any of the crashes people have discussed. I wonder if they would have charged at least $100 more, how much better the build quality could have been. I do wish the speakers could be better but doesn't really bother me.

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 Yeah,  Mine was perfectly flush when I got it.

  But,  When I went to put it back on I could not get it that perfect again...  The first try it was pretty obvious it was no where near flush.

 I read in another post to "Bow" it slightly while installing it.   So I tried that, and with each try it improved.

 It appears to be just a 'hair' longer than the opening  ?

 I was tempted to try and give it a slight 'Bend' ( ya know more than a 'bow' ? )

 But,  instead I settled for it looking almost flush.

My spacers are undamaged,  and only needed to be re-aligned one time when I opened and closed the bottom cover.

 I do hope they start to offer some of those little parts on the website, it would be easy to lose or break those little spacers.

I would buy some ahead of time for those   "Just in case" senerios,  better to have 'on hand' than have to wait 6 to 8 weeks for parts.

I came back to it this morning, and was able to pretty easily get everything mostly flush by gently bowing the bottom cover. It's not quite there, but it's so much better than it was. Enough for me to be happy with it at least.

Thanks for the suggestion.