Michael Larabel--
Between your two very good articles on the Motile M141laptop, there has been interest voiced in an ARM-based Linux laptop; specifically, the Pinebook Pro has been mentioned several times. As you know, I'm sure (but other of your readers may not know), the Pinebook Pro is a $200 (OK, $199.99), 14" 1080P IPS display, Linux laptop in a Magnesium-alloy case; with 4GB of RAM and 64 / 128 GB of eMMC and PCIe / NVMe SSD slot. Full specs and videos are available at the websites given below.
Lucasz Ericinsky and TL Lim (founder) have made it known that they (the Pine Microcomputer group) have set aside a portion of the Pinebook's production to be provided free to technical authors and owners of technical websites for evaluation. You simply have to contact them and express your desire for a Pinebook Pro to evaluate, and share that evaluation with your readers. How about it? Sounds good to me, and it seems as though--by evaluating this machine and publishing the results-- you'd be doing a real service to your readers, as well as possibly / probably getting noticed by the much larger community.
I do not know of a detailed effort (i.e., evaluation of the Pinebook Pro) by anyone of your and Phoronix's stature, to date.
Just a suggestion...
Between your two very good articles on the Motile M141laptop, there has been interest voiced in an ARM-based Linux laptop; specifically, the Pinebook Pro has been mentioned several times. As you know, I'm sure (but other of your readers may not know), the Pinebook Pro is a $200 (OK, $199.99), 14" 1080P IPS display, Linux laptop in a Magnesium-alloy case; with 4GB of RAM and 64 / 128 GB of eMMC and PCIe / NVMe SSD slot. Full specs and videos are available at the websites given below.
Lucasz Ericinsky and TL Lim (founder) have made it known that they (the Pine Microcomputer group) have set aside a portion of the Pinebook's production to be provided free to technical authors and owners of technical websites for evaluation. You simply have to contact them and express your desire for a Pinebook Pro to evaluate, and share that evaluation with your readers. How about it? Sounds good to me, and it seems as though--by evaluating this machine and publishing the results-- you'd be doing a real service to your readers, as well as possibly / probably getting noticed by the much larger community.
I do not know of a detailed effort (i.e., evaluation of the Pinebook Pro) by anyone of your and Phoronix's stature, to date.
Just a suggestion...
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