ARM Laptop: Pinebook Pro: A72, 14" IPS 1080p, 4GB RAM, 64GB eMMC, m.2 NVMe, USB-C

[w.meri]

It seems pretty decent. I haven’t really gone at it, but it seems to be at least 6 hours with mixed usage. At idle the big.LITTLE setup really shines, I could probably have 12 hours or more with something just running.

[Luke_PINE64]

you logged into root. No sound in root nor any acceleration.

Use rock/rock instead.

Also, I suggest you use Ubuntu with KDE: https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=8119

[w.meri]

Yeah, I realized my mistake the next day. Everything was much smoother after switching to the correct account!

I’m currently waiting on a microSD card to test out other Linux distros. I’ve never used Chromium so I figured I’d try it for a little bit. And if Manjaro comes out with with a Pinebook Pro variant I’ll probably go that route.

I’ll be making a review thread on this forum at a later date once I’ve used it some more.

[Luke_PINE64]

Sure. A Manjaro preview should be out next week. A trackpad / keyboard firmware fix will hopefully be available early next week.

[w.meri]

@Luke_PINE64 Awesome, thanks for the info! Aside from a couple small kinks this thing is basically perfect.

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I pumped out a review on my unit if anybody wants my thoughts on it:

Pinebook Pro: Initial Impressions

Please see the product page and the thread here on L1T if you want more details on what the Pinebook Pro is and what it represents. And special thanks to @Luke_PINE64 and the rest of Pine64 and the community for conceiving this! (Not an ad BTW, I paid for my Pinebook Pro with my own money and am writing this review on my own volition.) Physical The laptop feels outstanding for its $200 price tag, it honestly feels as good or better than my HP Envy x360. The body is made of a magnesium alloy and is quite rigid. The screen, which is normally the most flexible part of the body, feels rigid and strong. The underside of the chassis is also held in with just some small phillips head screws, so servicability should be pretty easy. [IMG_20191106_202043743] [IMG_20191106_202158761] Speaking of screen, I can’t fault the 1080p IPS screen either. Mine has no dead or stuck pixels, nor is the IPS glow too bad. The whites seem to be a bit cool, and the colors slightly muted, but that’s comparing it to IPS displays that cost well more than the entire device. As best I can tell it is connected via eDP, so in theory a user could swap it out with another screen if desired. The keyboard is fine, it’s not the worst feeling keyboard I’ve ever felt, nor is it the greatest. Overall it gets the job done. Mine did come with an ISO layout physically, but ANSI logically which messed me up at first, but even as I’m typing this review up I’m getting used to the layout. ANSI is coming down the pipeline from what I hear. I honestly could have picked ISO by accident, it wouldn’t surprise me. It is mostly personal, but I find the trackpad to be my first real complaint. I loathe textured trackpads to get that out of the way. I am also running into an issue where sometimes when I go to click the cursor shoots down and left. It may be because I move the pointer with my middle finger and click with my index finger and the trackpad misreading it. Luke at Pine64 says there is a firmware fix coming fo…

[thro]

Cheers for the review!

I very nearly bought one of these a couple of months ago, but didn’t purely due to other things i was throwing money at.

Very keen to hear long term use comments…

[Luke_PINE64]

Thanks for the review and feedback! … as well as the shoutout

[CloudPlumber]

Hey, haven’t seen anything further on this, did this happen? Would love to see a L1 impression / teardown of the PBP. @wendell

Sending this from my PBP, love this device @Luke_PINE64, you guys really nailed this product. Thank you!

[w.meri]

I sent Wendell a PM about sending L1T mine, but I never heard back.

[Zibob]

I don’t know for sure since I don’t use it, but by the sounds of the news you will have a better chance of messaging him on twitter.