[sh-run]

I have an original pinebook and it would be usable for light computing tasks (note taking/light programming in vim, web browsing with FF + no script) if not for the awkward keyboard layout. The other issue with the pinebook is the Mali 400 GPU is not open source, so if you are after a fully open device the pinebook is not it. IIRC there are also some video acceleration issues caused by the Mali 400 drivers.

The new pinebook pro looks like a better product, but I don't own one so I can't really comment.

[morganvachon]

You might indeed be interested in the Pinebook Pro. I recently ordered one, and it's supposed to ship later this month. There is active work on an open source GPU driver[1], and OpenBSD lists it as a supported device on their arm64 port[2]. I'm excited to get my hands on it and see what I can get to run on it, as well as potentially replace my current AMD64 laptop with it.

[1] https://xdc2018.x.org/slides/Panfrost-XDC_2018.pdf

[2] https://www.openbsd.org/arm64.html