The Pinebook officially comes out on Monday. It's an $89

If I get a few can I make a Beowulf cluster

>>59992149
Not OP, but probably. It's like a RPi on steroids from what I've read.

>>59992119
>ARM

>>>/trash/

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Even with bulk discounts, how can you afford a usable resolution LCD, any keyboard, and plastic/assembly/shipping at that cost?

Are they losing money up front to try and compensate elsewhere? Pic related started at like $50 and shot up to $80

>>59992163
Please do not take my Slashdot memes seriously or I'll have to switch to Fark memes.

Pinebook. Caught sayof laptop that has stoped Netbooksing " See, told ya so" Is It Ouya or not. OP says yes. 4chan /g/ Looking for normalfags -OR- "hello, I am make laptop to scam and wait for money again

>>59992170
Ain't the iPhone mounting a couple ARM v8s and nobody seems to complain? And BTW ARM just licenses architectures.

>>59992119
>>59992182
The same price would get you a refurb Thinkpad T410 or X201 with an i5 under the hood

>>59992182
>mfw when I bought it for 60 bucks and never actually used it for anything

>>59992119
>warranty: 30 days
what the fuck

>>59992277
Where?

>>59992287
What did you expect?

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>>59992300

>>59992119
Nobody fell for the ouya.
They tried selling it in stores and it was in the clearance bin within 3 months.

Also, I would buy the shit out of a brand new $89 laptop for coding that also supports linux out of the box.

>>59992119
>720p

You would have to pay me to use it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6YmuKCUwkI&t=315

What a piece of shit, but what are you expecting for $80.

>>59992415
>current bid price is the same as "buy now" price

fuck off

>>59992841
That's completed listings you stupid cunt. Kys you'reself

>>59992119
the keyboard will be utter shit, the cpu will be weak, shitty engineering, the thing's a mess

I would pay $800 for a well done ARM laptop with muh ports, good engineering, and a long battery life with a good screen. HP actually tried this years ago and released a carbon fiber ARM netbook with a 20+ hour battery life but Intel jewed them into discontinuing it and very few were sold.

All anti-ARM shills are really Intel pajeets in disguise. Intel's still butthurt about the fact that nobody wants their shitty phone chips.

>>59992250

Issue being software compatibility, not performance. Desktop Linux becomes shittier when you remove x86.

>>59992846
Are they REFURBS tho?

just seem like regular used laptops to me

>>59993394
It actually becomes better without x86.

I think they're kinda interesting

it might be a great notetaking machine with a proper OS, as the battery life should be decent, right? better than anything you'd get on used sub-$100 laptops, anyway, also thinner than thinkpads.

currently the ultimate poorfag notemaking setup seems to be chinkshit tablet + bluetooth keyboard/keyboard case, so...

so if they're available in the right moment, I might end up even getting one. I really want some user reviews first, tho. won't cry myself to sleep if not/they're shit

>>59992277
Bull shit. Even craigis list isn't that cheap.

>>59993488
>ultimate poorfag notemaking setup
>not a pad and paper
lol gtfo

>>59992119
>No keypad
Dropped

>>59993515
see >>59992415

>>59993526
I'm a much better typist than handwriter so no thanks

and I write a lot

But can it run Gnewsense?

>>59993565
you countered your own claim, those are not refurbs

What's a good alternative that costs the same and is as portable?

>>59992415
"starting today" i assume?
price goes hgher when its aput to end

>>59993642
Nevermind, it's Allwinner shit.

>>59993573
Same here, but I've never had a problem keeping up with a lecturer's main concepts with a pen and pad.

>>59993418
Only if you play pretend political activist, otherwise you're just a hipster gimping yourself for no reason other than looking cool.

>>59993394
What if I want to write software for ARM?

>>59994177
Cross compile like the rest of us

>>59993394
gentoo

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>>59992119
Give me 3 reasons a person would buy this instead of buying a used X201 or X230 from ebay.

>>59994771
>X201 or X230
Enjoy your Intel Management Engine backdoor

X200 is the only option

>>59992300
ebay

But tbqh you need to go up to about $100 to get a good one.

>>59992119
It's going to be shit.

>>59993417
REFURB just means the seller wiped the jizz off of it. It's a meme term.

>>59994781
any non-crazy people want to respond?

>>59993737
How fucking illiterate are people on 4chan that they can't read the short thread they're replying to?

>>59993488
I'm going to assume just from looking at the thing that that keyboard is going to be complete shit

>>59992119
Why would I buy this when I could just buy an old Thinkpad with the same or better performance, better build quality, and compatibility with Windows?

>>59992119
>TN LCD
Nope. I'm out.
I don't care if it's 6bit eIPS - it's a laptop, TN don't cut it.

>>59994883
You're into developing the Linux Desktop on ARM. You weirdo, you.

>>59994827
https://boingboing.net/2016/06/15/intel-x86-processors-ship-with.html
https://libreboot.org/faq.html#intel

>>59994943
TN is fine.

>>59994957
I don't give a shit. And how do you know this "pinebook" from who-the-fuck-knows-where doesn't have its own backdoor?

>>59994954
This is kind of the deterring factor for me. Like do normal linux packages even run on the pinebook's ARM64?

>>59994975
A great many do, and hypothetically a lot of the important shit should, but a lot of it isn't already in the repos, and you have to compile from source yourself. It's functionally going to be the same situation as with a raspberry pi, except it's a laptop.

The other day I tried getting a program called Cockatrice to work on the Pi, but the .deb wouldn't install, and three of the four dependencies weren't in the repos, so I had to start doing it all from source and gave up b/c the college wi-fi really slows down all downloading from repos.

>>59994974
I haven't said anything one way or the other about the pinebook. I said the X200 is the only option (technically still comes with ME, but it's an older version that can actually be removed and replaced.)

>>59994999
Are you never going to go online with your X200? Otherwise I don't see the point of caring so much about it.

>>59994959
It really isn't.
It's a laptop, I'm not going to be looking at it dead on all the time.

>>59995022
>I don't see much care about a device that can sniff every memory address, snoop on every network packet, read and write data to disk, etc - all without the OS or main CPU even knowing such things even occurred.

A low cost arm laptop could interesting although not with android.

>>59995049
No, I don't care about any such device since most of my data is going to pass through hundreds of other computers every day. You're plugging one hole out of thousands. Your boat is still going to sink.

>>59995093
Android isn't all that bad with ARM, and especially with a keyboard and mouse combo, there are worse things. What really kills it the lack of a touch screen. Although few in number, there are some things in the touch based OS that aren't replicated well with a mouse.

>>59995270
>encryption doesn't exist

>>59995440
Encryption won't make a damned bit of difference and you know it.

>>59995466
>Encryption won't make a damned bit of difference and you know it.
How does it feel to be retarded? I'm genuinely curious.

>>59995485
>doesn't know about Management Engine/TrustZone

>>59995521
>Implying I'm not the same person that posted >>59994781
>Implying my computer has ME

>>59992119

oh so it's basically a raspberry pi laptop? that's my impression of it after looking at the website

https://www.pine64.org/

>>59995646
Yes, see here

>>59994988

>>59992119
Wouldn't mind one after I read some reviews for it first. Wouldn't mind a cheap throw away laptop that if it gets lost, stolen, or dropped; not the worst thing.

so is the internet browsing shit like it is with a raspberry pi?

>>59995701
Exactly as shit.

>>59993394
I think I only use one package which can't be compiled to run on ARM, but that is only because it is heavily optimised to use specific x86 instructions.

But I don't expect to try and run a software defined digital radio transmitter on a netbook any time soon, so I fail to see the problem.

>>59995724
>>59995701

raspberry pi is already when you;re browsing torrent sites, but not so good when you browse sites with a bunch of ads and pictures. i use mine to pirate shit. i have no problems browsing torrent sites with it

>>59995844

raspbery pi is alright*

damnit

>>59992714
Heh, internals look exactly like the insides of any chinese tablets.

>>59992119
>16 GB eMMC 5.0 (upgradable up to 64GB)
Fucking wat

>>59993418

Certain popular proprietary software that has been ported to Linux stops working on ARM, most notably Steam.

>>59994177

Then that would be a perfectly legitimate reason to buy this laptop. It's just, you know, not for the ordinary user.

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>>59992415
>ebay

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>>59994781

>>59996038
I guess they take putting a 64GB microsd card in it as an "upgrade"

>>59992281
>when you spent all your money on the thing and don't have any left to buy a face

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>>59994816
>I want my laptops with the jizz still on them

>>59992182
look up economy of scale

>>59996029
It really does, it seriously looks like they simply gutted a tablet and stuffed the insides into a small notebook casing and called it a day.

Almost surprising the keyboard/touchpad weren't just connected to an 'internal' usb port.

>>59994771
>X201 or X230
The X60 exists.

If only it had some open firmware and a decent bootloader it would be usable lol

>>59996215
>He doesn't want the jizz on his laptops
What are you, some kind of queer?

>>59994959
For a loser

>>59992277
>>59992415
The T410 is kinda slow, has bad battery life, heavy and bulking, and runs a hot. Literally fuck off.

>>59998787
It also looks like shit. The only ones buying ancient Lenovo notebooks is retarded tech hipsters.

>>59998787
>bulking
Shit, I meant bulky.

>>59998828
More like autistic. Hipsters would be the Apple users.

>>59998859
People who buy Thinkpads also qualify as hipsters. They could be buying other models of corporate notebooks that are pretty good ( Thinkpads are good, but if you want the opinion of someone who works fixing notebooks, some other corporate models are way stronger and better to maintain ), but they go for Thinkpads because the aging visual of the thing makes them feel different and special.

>>59998982
I guess I can agree with that. Elitebook is one that comes to mind, they're pretty nice.
Thinkpads have basically just become /g/ memes.

>>59999053
I was talking about hp elitebooks, too. 410s and elitebooks are among the models we have at work.

>>59999123
Yea, from what I've heard they're really good. Have they held up better then Thinkpads?

>>59999229
At work we call the 410s, "Lenojo". "Nojo" means "disgust".

>>59994771
plus sides
>cheaper if you don't luck out or live in the US
>likely better battery life unless you spend even more shekels for a new battery (I read somewhere the pine should be able to do 4-6 hours, I wouldn't buy an old thinkpad expecting more than 2-3 from the included battery)
>even more portable
>likely adequate for basic tasks like text editing

kinda neutral
>some people think it is interesting to try "different kind of" hardware

minus sides
>random chink crap
>hard to know how good it actually is, is the keyboard worth a damn, etc

>>59994816
sometimes probably, but usually it implies that it was throroughly checked and usually refurbs come with some sort of a warranty

>>59992198
do you have brain damage?

>>59999295
That's funny.