A $99 Laptop?! - Pinebook

We got the cheapest laptop we could find- just $99. But is this notebook even usable?.. Depends: do you know how to use Linux?

Intro Screen Music Credit:
Title: Laszlo - Supernova

[YoshiClapz]

“Oh, it’s brighter”

*Screen darkens*

[nathanielholmes]

I really love how honest the PineBook description is; that's rare

[sxes]

2019: but does it run doom?
2020: but does it run zoom?

[brianm]

My school district: I’ll take your entire stock

[SushiStriker]

Linus: Guys this laptop isn't good

Pinebook: *immediately sold out*

[lucashurst]

That looks like one of the "1000 dollar" laptops at my school.

[haydenchristensen]

Mfs be like: what's the catch
Bro the whole laptop is the catch

[benvoisey]

Linus: "I will never move to that country.... sorry"

Me: Cries in UK

[RoguishlyHandsome]

_Wrong audio out of the box_
Not really though. You did boot from a Manjaro SD card and not from the preinstalled OS.

[rollingtroll]

To be honest, screen, keyboard, wifi chip, storage, memory... That alone is worth the 99 bucks and it all seems relatively solid. 199 for a much quicker one could be really interesting.

[FlyingPigChannel]

Looks like one of those “$500 dollar” computers our school has😂😂😂

[alexanderhill]

Linus, ARM devices don't have a setup key. If it can't find the file it's looking for, it just doesn't boot.

[BerndmagsfettigX]

The Youtube playback was so choppy because of missing hardware acceleration. There are addons that forces Youtube to deliver h264 instead of vp9. Decoding vp9 on that machine without hardware acceleration: forget about it.

[FederationOfLight]

The hilarious thing is that Pinebook have this video on their homepage. haha! Classic!

[aydinlutmergp]

Me: Can I have a laptop mom?

Mom: We have one at home

Laptop at home: PINEBOOK

[KangoV]

What's most surprising is how much CPU horsepower you need just to read email these days ;)

[mgproryh]

in the UK, we might have small shift but I can tell you we more than make up for it with the gerth of our enter keys!

[williamjpriest]

Pine is a really honest company that sells really honest products most people can't use but everyone loves them lol

[nullpro]

Thanks Linus, this makes my laptop look like a gaming pc

[itsjugu]

12:24 "its only got 32gb of storage so its likely that windows update will be the end of it" LMFAOOO