The Pinebook Pro is a $200 laptop that runs a couple of ARM processors, and it promises a lot. Does it deliver? After what seemed like an eternity ...
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I currently use a HP Stream 14 w/ manjaro for daily purposes. My "daily driver" laptop is almost 10 years old at this point and while still performs OK-ish, it is literally breaking apart and held together by tape. The battery life is just enough to get from one plug point to another.
My main complain with Stream 14 is that it always just misses the mark by a bit. In the maybe a refreshed version with slightly better processor would've made it territory. That said it works well for basic tasks. I'm writing this on the stream, it has nice keyboard. My current website is mostly done on this laptop. VSC lags a bit sometimes and I work with a reduced set of plugins compared to what I have on my other laptop but it ain't bad.
The ARM part might be a hurdle but looks like performance wise this wouldve been a good choice.
Hope I can get it to Nigeria with not too much charge
I could do with a new laptop right about now
The biggest problems I have with laptops running Linux are the function buttons for like bright/dim backlight and volume, and sleep on close/open on wake. Did those work ok?
Fun aside, I have an older laptop (Samsung Series 7 Chronos) -- after upgrading it to Win10, those buttons stopped working. It wasn't until I installed Fedora a year or so ago that I got the functionality of those buttons back.
Long story short, Linux can be even better than Windows in regards to function button functionality these days.
I did not try the bright/dim on the standard Debian install but I just tried it with Manjaro and it works. Sleep on close/ open on wake doesn't but I haven't configured it to do so, I'll play around with it and let you know
Been eyeballing the phonebook as a chromebook replacement. Looks like that would just about do it and then some. Does it have upgradable ram and hard drive?
I picked up one of these and I patched the keyboard/trackpad issue but haven’t had a chance to play with it otherwise yet.