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How was your experience with the PineBook Pro?

I've been experimenting with ARM systems for the last year or so — changing how I compute to fit into the tighter limits of the SBCs etc. The governor settings and disk IO seem to be the most important points.

I've been eyeing the PBP (once they come back into production). What is the battery life like with the governor set to performance?

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I usually don't run it actually to the end of the battery, but with the screen at mid-brightness, 6-8 of estimated use is pretty common, and I'll often see 10-12 if I'm fully charged. I just don't know if those are accurate. But with deep sleep (BSP uboot, not mainline), it's quite well behaved.

It's my main laptop at this point, but I don't ask that much of computers anymore. They did, at least, fix the trackpad firmware, which was beyond vile until about a year ago.

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