[L2Ork-dev] Current HEAD of Purr Data is broken

[Albert Graef]

On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 4:20 AM Jonathan Wilkes <jon.w.wilkes at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Not much compares to the Asus C201.


That looks like a really nice machine. Apparently, they're out of stock,
but of course there are newer models available.

Yeah, the Pinebook Pro looks a bit experimental and flimsy to me, so I'm
really tempted to buy one of these Chromebooks instead, if Purr Data runs
on them. :) I guess that I'll have to install Linux on the device first,
though, to get Purr Data to run on it?

Thanks,
Albert


For the price it is one of the
> most impressive pieces of hardware I've ever seen. They advertise 13
> hours of battery life, and that's about right. It never gets hot even
> when infinite scrolling through Reddit's insanely wasteful site, or
> using Zoom. The touchpad quality leads me to believe it was put
> together by professional humans with hands and fingers that connect to
> the domain expertise in their brains.
>
> Plus you could drop it into a classroom of budding sociopaths and it
> will still be working at the end of the day.
>
> The Pinebook Pro is less capable. It's good enough for browsing the
> web, watching videos, and developing. But it gets
> hot enough using Zoom that the students seem to have learned to
> anticipate my periodic disappearances. Also the
> touchpad is crap. But someone has been reverse engineering it so there
> may be a fix for it (unless it's the hardware
> itself).
>
> But it appears to have pretty decent Linux support-- it looks like
> Debian supports it now.
>
> -Jonathan
>

-- 
Dr. Albert Gr"af
Computer Music Research Group, JGU Mainz, Germany
Email: aggraef at gmail.com, web: https://agraef.github.io/
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