<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 4:20 AM Jonathan Wilkes <<a href="mailto:jon.w.wilkes@gmail.com">jon.w.wilkes@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">
Not much compares to the Asus C201.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>That looks like a really nice machine. Apparently, they're out of stock, but of course there are newer models available.</div><div><br></div><div>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?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Albert</div><div><br></div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> For the price it is one of the<br>
most impressive pieces of hardware I've ever seen. They advertise 13<br>
hours of battery life, and that's about right. It never gets hot even<br>
when infinite scrolling through Reddit's insanely wasteful site, or<br>
using Zoom. The touchpad quality leads me to believe it was put<br>
together by professional humans with hands and fingers that connect to<br>
the domain expertise in their brains.<br>
<br>
Plus you could drop it into a classroom of budding sociopaths and it<br>
will still be working at the end of the day.<br>
<br>
The Pinebook Pro is less capable. It's good enough for browsing the<br>
web, watching videos, and developing. But it gets<br>
hot enough using Zoom that the students seem to have learned to<br>
anticipate my periodic disappearances. Also the<br>
touchpad is crap. But someone has been reverse engineering it so there<br>
may be a fix for it (unless it's the hardware<br>
itself).<br>
<br>
But it appears to have pretty decent Linux support-- it looks like<br>
Debian supports it now.<br>
<br>
-Jonathan<br>
</blockquote></div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Dr. Albert Gr"af<br>Computer Music Research Group, JGU Mainz, Germany<br>Email: <a href="mailto:aggraef@gmail.com" target="_blank">aggraef@gmail.com</a>, web: <a href="https://agraef.github.io/" target="_blank">https://agraef.github.io/</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>