Yeah that 2GB is kind of sketch, kind of curious what usage percentage you'd have just being idle. I used to use a tiling manager back when I had crappy laptops just to save some ram.

I would be interested to see how this thing does with battery life/drawing with a stylus. I'm not an artist but I use sketching to prototype wireframe/mechanical stuff.

Yeah, 2gb ram is a little concerning, it seems like it'd be only good for an IOT controller or something that offloads the processing somewhere else

Not that you're wrong per se, but this is really damning (and also quite depressing) indictment of modern software.

2GB is ok for what you normally do with a phone or tablet. Manage small chunks of data, writing, browsing, little development, some games.

I have used the Original Pinebook for about a year as my main private laptop and can say it was an enjoyable experience.

Of course it depends on what you want to do, it’s not high end but definitely usable and fun.

a chat program and a music program just started up, not doing anything but idling, nowadays use 500 MiB each. 2 GiB is not enough any more because everyone writes their apps in dom now, because it seems to be the only toolkit with vaguely viable, non-sucky state management libraries, and it just isn't efficient enough. this isn't intrinsic tho

(and then yesterday i just tried windows 7 for the first time in a vm with 2 GiB allocated, and it was far snappier than i could have imagined).