European. Linux enthusiast. History graduate. I never downvote reasoned opinions and I do not engage with people who downvote mine (which may be why you got no reply). Low-effort comments with vulgarity or snark will also be ignored.
Turns out it’s in stock at the global store (i.e. Hong Kong). Was out of stock in the EU store.
It has a borderline dealbreaking problem: 10.1in screen. I like small but that is tiny. For me the sweet spot is 12-13in, a screen size that seems to have fallen into a black hole since mobiles grew to 6in.
Otherwise, the 8GB model does indeed suit me absolutely perfectly. Hopefully next time. I really want Pine to survive and thrive.
Chipsets are usually well supported by the time they are in laptops today.
I don’t get where you’re coming from, unless you’re talking exclusively about expensive, heavy, Intel-powered laptops. The cheaper ones are now moving en-masse to ARM and Mediatek, along with the convertible tablets that are replacing them. All this stuff (and there’s lots of it) is all but incompatible with Linux.
OK points taken, but I’ll push back a bit about these definitions of “normal”.
What I aspire to is a tablet with a keyboard. I would argue that this makes me very normal indeed. This is not “abnormal hardware” any more, it’s basically the step up from smartphones, which is what ordinary people do their computing on these days.
These days desktop computers are bought by corporations and gamers only, and laptops are bought by students and rich people. Ordinary people use Android. Hence my whole issue.
Starts at about 40% higher than my budget with nothing in the convertible category, or fanless, or just small. All of which is available today from any electronics retailer, but basically incompatible with Linux.
Hopefully specialist sellers like this will begin to move downmarket into these new niches.
Fair points. I actually earned more 20 years ago than I do today, but that’s on me. In retrospect the real golden age IMO was the netbook era. Those things were Linux-compatible and there was tons of competition so they were cheap as dirt. I had an Asus that cost next to nothing and ended up taking 6 years of constant abuse (in a backpack).
Yes, I’ve heard about Lenovo T line and I don’t doubt they’re great. A bit too heavy and frankly high performance for me. And it still feels like a temporary solution, like driving a 1980s car because they don’t make them like they did.
If the Pinebook Pro was in stock I probably would have bought that.
Cost: 2x, 3x, 4x what normies are paying for laptops. To repeat myself: unlike 10-20 years ago, you cannot easily put Linux on a low-end commercial laptop any more. I say that’s a problem.
Yes, for 1000€-plus. A decade ago you could go to a big-box store and get a Linux-compatible computer for a fraction of that. Today you cannot.
There’s no getting round it. The Palace of Italian Civilization (pictured) is a genuinely beautiful building.
In reality, fascist architecture was just a version of the modernist architecture fashionable in the 1930s, as the article says. Chaillot Palace in Paris could pass as fascist but was built by a liberal democracy.