Pine64 February Community Update
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The 8GB version I am personally avoiding. Even though the cost difference is just $50, the SoC has some implementation flaws that only show when it is configured with >4GB of RAM. Hopefully these issues are fixed on rk3588, but rk356x really shouldn't be shipped or purchased with >4GB of RAM IMO.
… so that it would typically be even more expensive than to order directly from Pine Store Ltd in Hong Kong AND pay not only the import VAT (via customs), more than twice more on shipping (import VAT), plus the ripoff fee that the shipping company charges to get it through customs (as you can't do that yourself any more since the exemption limit for the import VAT was scrapped) than to buy it from the pine64eu.com shop
I get it that operating a local shop in Europe costs money, but as is, the added cost is just too much from a customer perspective
edit: corrected address: pine64eu.com
As far as the price difference, I understand that EU shop return/warranty policy is much more generous than their international shop. Like 2 years vs. 30 days.
yeah sorry, that's the one I meant. The other one is just what the search engine spew out first right now when I searched for the address with the keywords pine64 eu thinking to find the shop I meant.
> 2 years vs. 30 days.
I don't know about the specific terms, but 2 years warranty looks like the EU standard, which de facto is only 6 months because while the warranty is indeed 2 years per se, the burden of proof that the product was deficient when sold flips from the seller to the buyer after 6 months.
Anyways, it boils down to the individual appreciation of whether the added de facto warranty time is worth the high price premium or not. For my purposes, it isn't.
… so that buying it from the pine64eu.com shop would be even more expensive than to order directly from Pine Store Ltd in Hong Kong despite in the latter case having to pay not only the import VAT (via customs), more than twice more on shipping (import VAT), plus the ripoff fee that the shipping company charges to get it through customs (as you can't do that yourself any more since the exemption limit for the import VAT was scrapped).
The driver for the EPD is not (yet) upstreamed, and the device has never been sold to end users (only developers).
Either they are waiting for better software support to be ironed out, or they overestimated the interest in a $400 eink device.