<div dir="ltr"><div>The board I received appeard poorly assembled and was fairly warped... there was solder flux all over it too.</div><div><br></div><div>It's been a while, but from what I recall there was some issue with the board layout/interconnect that was causing stability issues and if I'm not mistaken major performance bottleneck making the whole thing pretty unusable. (Not sure if they solved that later or what, but after waiting over a year to get the thing, and then having very limited support I decided to move on.)</div><div><br></div><div>Purely opinion on this point, but seemed like the board was wasteful in it's layout/could have been smaller.</div><div><br></div><div>I dumped it on someone in a pile of recycled equipment... I'll see if I can get it back and send it to you.</div><div><br></div><div>Stuart</div><div><br><div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 2:01 PM Ron Singh <<a href="mailto:ronsingh149@gmail.com">ronsingh149@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Stuart,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">What do you mean by "poor design and production quality", do you mean, cruddy solder job, poorly-aligned connectors, poor connectors, crappy silkscreening?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">See, I want to get one of their Rock64 SBC with their alum case, but now I grow worried.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">The SBC is this one:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.pine64.org/?page_id=7147" target="_blank">https://www.pine64.org/?page_id=7147</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">The case is this one:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.pine64.org/?product=rock64-premium-aluminum-casing" target="_blank">https://www.pine64.org/?product=rock64-premium-aluminum-casing</a><br> </div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_5201618137543552544gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div></div><div>Thanks,<br><br>Ron Singh<br><br></div></div></div></div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 1:44 PM Stuart Seeley <<a href="mailto:stuart@lowlevel.ca" target="_blank">stuart@lowlevel.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I backed their Pine A64 single board computer on kickstarter.<div>While support is certainly limited, the over all poor design and production quality put me off.</div><div>The raspberry pi boards from my point of view are far more mature and better supported.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Stuart</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 11:10 AM Khalid Baheyeldin <<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com" target="_blank">kb@2bits.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>I ran across this company when I was looking for SBCs that can run Linux</div><div>for my Home Assistant project. I ended up with a Raspberry Pi 3, but was</div><div>impressed with their SBCs.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.pine64.org/" target="_blank">https://www.pine64.org/</a></div><div><br></div><div>The laptop seems to be a natural evolution from there.</div><div><br></div><div>What worries me about these companies is the same thing that plagues</div><div>Orange Pi, Banana Pi, and other more powerful RPi clones: software and</div><div>community. Specifically, they make the operating system work, then do <br></div><div>not put any effort in updating it at all, then it is abandoned after a new <br></div><div>model comes out. Also, the lack of a community hobbles them. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Let us see if the laptop can overcome these problems.<br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 11:01 AM L.D. Paniak <<a href="mailto:ldpaniak@fourpisolutions.com" target="_blank">ldpaniak@fourpisolutions.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Looks like there is a reasonable, inexpensive open-source (friendly)<br>
laptop coming down the pipe soon:<br>
<br>
<a href="https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=7093" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=7093</a><br>
<br>
Not sure how many binary blobs are required to make it go but my BSD<br>
friends think it is OK.<br>
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