Pinebook Pro Initial Impressions

[bcnaz]

So my new ANSI Pinebook Pro arrived exactly as DHL had said it would within minutes of their ETA.

 Overall the packing is excellent, however the power pack and the NVMe adapter are kind of floating around

in one of the outer bags, I did not find the NVMe adapter until I went back through the packaging materials, a small envelope.

  The Pinebook Pro looks great as we have come to expect.

  I wanted to charge it up before hand   (New shipping laws say lithium batteries must be charged less than 30%)

>  * My charger is damaged or defective,  it did not show up when I plugged it in. (little red indicator light)

     SO  I just used my charger from my ISO PBP,  which worked fine, including the red indicator light. 

   When I  fired it up,  wifi connected quick, good signal shows both my 2.4 and 5.0 and some of my neighbors as well.

   We are on 2 acre lots so it is not like an apartment next door.  Very good reception.

   Did the mrFixIt updates including the widevine,  no problem. (also Debian updates)

   BUT  for about 5 minutes the screen started flashing, bright and dim, bright and dim..  ?

    It did clear up,  and no more problems the rest of the first night.

    Then this evening I had it turned on for a few minutes and it started flashing bright and dim again

    but after flashing for about 5 minutes it did clear up and has been steady for hours now....  ?  ?

     I must have the NEW keyboard firmware as I tried the 'Luke test'     a finger on the track pad and it still types.

     Though it was set to EU in the keyboard settings,   I added US keyboard,   and then deleted the EU keyboard.

          >>    The @ key and the  "  keys were reversed.

      Except for being a little worried about the flashing spells I Do Like this little PBP so far.

    The keyboard and track pad appear to be operating correctly,  keyboard has the "NEW" feel

     The track pad is sensitive and slightly different from others, but nice

       Enough talk here for now,  I am going to test drive this some more,  and maybe edit here some more latter.

        Thanks Pine64  !