No, as the used SoC AFAIK doesn’t support more than 4GB ram. But being a low powered system in general I have not yet encountered the need for more than 4GB ram… the CPU becomes a bottleneck anyways. I could imagine though that if you plan to do code compilation then 4GB could become an issue. For general everyday use it isn’t though as long as you accept that the Pinebook Pro is a low-end machine in general.
The SoC is a bit underwhelming for a laptop, that’s for sure. But for the price i guess you really can’t complain too much considering it’s a small-volume device and it’s running open source software. Hopefully the RK3588 comes out soon (finally) and pine can start working towards getting it up and running and proceeding to pack it into a pinebook pro with 8GBs of ram.
Unrelated to the pinephone itself, will Pinebook Pro receive a RAM upgrade in the next batch? 4GB is good for me but most people would prefer 8GB.
No, as the used SoC AFAIK doesn’t support more than 4GB ram. But being a low powered system in general I have not yet encountered the need for more than 4GB ram… the CPU becomes a bottleneck anyways. I could imagine though that if you plan to do code compilation then 4GB could become an issue. For general everyday use it isn’t though as long as you accept that the Pinebook Pro is a low-end machine in general.
The SoC is a bit underwhelming for a laptop, that’s for sure. But for the price i guess you really can’t complain too much considering it’s a small-volume device and it’s running open source software. Hopefully the RK3588 comes out soon (finally) and pine can start working towards getting it up and running and proceeding to pack it into a pinebook pro with 8GBs of ram.