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The Pinebook is a small, inexpensive and light netbook built around the PINE64 SBC that can (now) run a full KDE Plasma desktop.

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When "Apple" or "Dotan Cohen" are mentioned in the title, I'll understand that no explanation is needed. But when tiny companies and products that are completely unknown are presented, an explanation is proper. The title should have been "KDE developers release stable images for smartphone-powered laptop".

That said, the device seems decent for the price. It looks like a Macbook clone, but with an ISO keyboard layout. The screen resolution is horrendous, and with only 2 GiB of RAM and 16 GiB of storage, the device is too weak for any real use case.

Pine64 is pretty well known.

It's particularly egregious because the original article title says "...on ARM laptop Pinebook".

It is a netbook competitor, not a macbook competitor.

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