Impressions on PBP.
Received in early January.
Obvious defect: the plastic frame around the screen was not firm, considerable burrs prevented the plastic from being held in contact with the cover.
Removed the burrs I had to use glue.
Satisfied with the rest of the hardware. No problem changing the trackpad firmware. Even after the change it is inconvenient to use the trackpad, but also on all other notebooks owned the trackpad has always been difficult to use. I use a mouse and I have disabled the trackpad; I find the keyboard more responsive and no more characters have been lost while typing.
I found the Debian / MrFixit2001 operating system very responsive, very fast on boot. I was not able to use it and I had to replace it because I am a LibreOffice user, his release is too old and not aligned with the current one (6) that I use on other computers, this has already been reported.
I have tried many systems, almost all those proposed. The boot time for almost everyone is tremendous, for some it exceeds two minutes.
I found a satisfactory solution using Daniel Thompson's installer, recompiling the 5.6 Manjaro / tsys kernel, mesa-git, mate-desktop, zram swap with about 60% of the memory.
Boot time is just over a minute.
When I have time I will dedicate myself to building a kernel without initrd and to add an ISO keyboard configuration for the Romance languages, with accented letters and modified characters.
I find the PBP very suitable for my use. I especially like it because it doesn't use the IA64 architecture, which is very inefficient. As an architecture, I would have liked a MIPS more.
For the future PBP I would have some suggestions.
(Sorry for my bad english)
PS kernel without erratum and no maxcpu=4
Errata IA 64 -> x64 (64 bit version of x86 instruction set)
Received in early January.
Obvious defect: the plastic frame around the screen was not firm, considerable burrs prevented the plastic from being held in contact with the cover.
Removed the burrs I had to use glue.
Satisfied with the rest of the hardware. No problem changing the trackpad firmware. Even after the change it is inconvenient to use the trackpad, but also on all other notebooks owned the trackpad has always been difficult to use. I use a mouse and I have disabled the trackpad; I find the keyboard more responsive and no more characters have been lost while typing.
I found the Debian / MrFixit2001 operating system very responsive, very fast on boot. I was not able to use it and I had to replace it because I am a LibreOffice user, his release is too old and not aligned with the current one (6) that I use on other computers, this has already been reported.
I have tried many systems, almost all those proposed. The boot time for almost everyone is tremendous, for some it exceeds two minutes.
I found a satisfactory solution using Daniel Thompson's installer, recompiling the 5.6 Manjaro / tsys kernel, mesa-git, mate-desktop, zram swap with about 60% of the memory.
Boot time is just over a minute.
When I have time I will dedicate myself to building a kernel without initrd and to add an ISO keyboard configuration for the Romance languages, with accented letters and modified characters.
I find the PBP very suitable for my use. I especially like it because it doesn't use the IA64 architecture, which is very inefficient. As an architecture, I would have liked a MIPS more.
For the future PBP I would have some suggestions.
(Sorry for my bad english)
PS kernel without erratum and no maxcpu=4
Errata IA 64 -> x64 (64 bit version of x86 instruction set)