isleofvoid
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Comment · 6 years ago
I meant the cable is not included with the laptop.
Comment · 6 years ago
Stefan Schaeckeler wrote an excellent review of the PbP[0].
The following excerpt might be interesting to some.
The Pinebook Pro is an open laptop but also a black box at the same time. It is not possible to debug early boot problems without a serial console cable.
The cable costs $6.99 currently and is a separate product[1].
Personally, the only reason stopping me from getting this laptop is the import tax. A quick search on the Pine64 forum revealed it to be around $100 for my country. Adding all the expenses, $350 for this machine is much more than what I can spend.
[0] http://students.engr.scu.edu/~sschaeck/misc/pinebookpro.html
[1] https://store.pine64.org/?product=pinebook-serial-console