Just a quickee post... I ordered a Pinebook Pro, and its a little weird
because why would anyone need/want one of these low-cost, low-cpu ARM based machines in a laptop form- however, if you understand that its just [like] a Raspberry Pi in a laptop, the build quality is kick butt [minus the trackpad which is mediocre at best].

I almost was taken aback with how great an obviously Chinese made, low end of the spectrum ARM laptop build came out. It's top notch.

I guess using it for learning python and GPIO [you can access 6 thru the SD card reader... or add a GPIO addon for 20.] its a great system. Heck, you
could run a bbs on it - or... do anything that you'd do with a top notch Raspberry Pi system. It ships now with Manjaro ARM on it and man... it is a tinkerers dream.

Just figured I'd post, cause I heard some people talking it down - I think people want a full laptop daily machine out of it; if you know what you're getting into/buying, this is a bad little machine.

I dig it... the keyboard is awesome. Metal build rocks... and while I've seen some posts of issues on arrival, without customer support as good as the RPi team - I haven't experienced that at all.

Furthermore, the community is pretty good - its more overseas with some language barriers but all-in-all I recommend this hardward. I think its tits.



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I got one hoping it could be a simple little Kali Linux box to do some pen testing with. But the lag in the mouse and keyboard drove me crazy. So it's currently sitting at the bottom of a pile of papers and random stuff. XD. Hopefully I'll find a good use for it someday soon. Maybe going back to the native Manjaro OS will help with performance?

Cheers!
InvaderBeepis

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I got one hoping it could be a simple little Kali Linux box to do some
pen testing with. But the lag in the mouse and keyboard drove me crazy. So it's currently sitting at the bottom of a pile of papers and random stuff. XD. Hopefully I'll find a good use for it someday soon. Maybe going back to the native Manjaro OS will help with performance?

I think it will - I do have a Kali SD card, but don't use it MUCH... however, I




























































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































don't notice too much lag when I do - also, the trackpad is so bad that I usually use a wireless mouse... the keyboard is great, but...

While it runs slower than a Raspberry Pi 4, I find that Manjaro runs nicely enough to use. I use the PBP as a laptop to take to work, or on the go - that I




























































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































don't have to worry about getting messed up.

I thought it would be a nice terminal for my other ARM SBC projects, and use it




























































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































as such at times... but mainly it gets used as a throw-around laptop. :P



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