It's snappy!
The keyboard feels nice, unexpectedly!
Cold boot to login screen is about ten seconds on the default OS image running from eMMC.
Battery came charged to approx. 80% according to battery app in dock, which it translates to approx. 8 hours of run time remaining.
Overall, feels quite a bit more substantial than the pinebook1080. Deffo comes across as higher quality via fit and finish.
Fullscreen youtube looks and sounds good, but masto doesn't like videos from my phone, so imagine a video of a video playing back here (it is Jamiroquai's "King for a Day" if you are a method tootreader)
The power light flashes as a drive use indicator and this is immediately better than 99% of the laptops on the market.
I will continue to update this thread throughout the next few days as I become more acquainted with my new pal.
Also, expect some feedback on the internals tomorrow, as I expect to receive the NVMe drive that is destined for mounting in the pinebook pro by the end of today.
with chromium open to the toot-lab and htop running in a terminal, memory use is sitting at 864 megabytes.
currently downloading the bionic lxde image for the pinebook pro to dd onto a microsd card for funsies
Suspend on close and resume on open work nicely on the default OS image.
@djsundog It has a nice form factor, modern but with some restraint. How's the screen on it?
@Mainebot it's pretty nice! 1080p with a matte finish (I am not a fan of glossy glass panels, so the matte display is a plus for me)
Quite readable at 50% brightness, 100% is actually a little too bright for my taste (but still not blurry)
@technomancy yeah, it's nice! I am looking forward to warmer days for more outdoor testing as well ;)
@djsundog Neat! I hadn't heard of these before but at their price point I'm thinking of picking one up. It'd be fun to have a nicely-integrated Linux laptop for once.
Looks like it's out of stock right now though :(
@fluffy I have one of the older $99 pinebooks, this so far seems to be well worth the extra bill. Think they're opening up orders next week (with availability for the ANSI keyboards as opposed to this one, which is ISO).
@djsundog Oh cool, I was wondering about that... I can't stand ISO keyboards.
@fluffy yeah, they launched with ISO first, so all the pre-order devices have ISO keyboards, but if it drives me too nuts I'll end up getting an ANSI replacement
@djsundog Looks sweet. Does that use OpenBoot?
@kmckaig nope, u-boot - it's an arm64 laptop running on rockchip rk3399 SoC
@djsundog Cool, I had read the spec sheet on their site but they didn't mention that. I'm looking forward to your impressions.
@djsundog No, that's a different netbook.