I really appreciate write ups like this. While I had considered taking the Pinebook Pro for a spin, the storage and limited RAM situation is ultimately what broke the deal for me as I could not think of a use-case for me as it would fall short of what I need from a laptop. Hopefully I can muster the energy to write something similar after I get my Pinetab, for which I hopefully have more realistic expectations to use as an e-mail terminal (mutt and Syncthing) and occasional “browser peek” while jumping between meetings where I do not feel like dragging a laptop along. My only concern now is whether I can have it fully encrypted and what state video (not browser video) playback will be in.

In closing, I have to say that I really appreciate what Pine64 are doing. Their SoC boards, PineTime, and PinePhone are all great fun and I hope this is just the beginning of a long series of awesome hardware to play around with together with supremely hackable open source software.