by Brad Linder
3 Comments on Lilbits: PineNote Community Edition, Raspberry Pi CM5, and a DIY PS5 handheld
The PineNote is an E Ink tablet with a 10.3 inch front-lit display, support for EMR stylus input, and a Rockchip RK3566 processor, 4GB of RAM, and 128GB of storage. Like most E Ink tablets, it’s designed for reading and writing… but unlike most, it’s also designed to be a customizable device that’s not locked down to running a single operating system.
When Pine64 first launched a PineNote Developer Edition a few years ago, it didn’t really ship with any operating system at all – the idea was to get hardware into the hands of developers who could build software for the platform. Now the company is preparing take pre-orders for a new PineNote Community Edition thatwill come with a pre-loaded operating system, but which is still really aimed at developers and enthusiasts. Don’t expect the experience to be as polished as what you’d expect from an Amazon, Kobo, reMarkable, or Onyx BOOX device, at least not at launch.
PineNote Community Edition pre-orders starting soon [Pine64]
It has the same $399 price tag as the Developer Edition and the hardware remains unchanged. Pine64 first revealed plans to launch this new model a few weeks ago, and now the company has posted a “coming soon” page.
The Raspberry Pi CM5 is Weeks Away? [bret.dk]
It looks like a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 could be set to launch on or around November 20th. Mouser Electronics has product listings for a CM5 I/O carrier board, heatsink, and I/O board case, although pictures are “for reference only.”
Walmart’s next Onn 4K ‘Plus’ streaming device leaks with impressive benchmark scores [AFTVNews]
An unannounced Onn 4K Plus media streamer has shown up in a Geekbench report, with a multi-core performance score that makes it one of the fastest Google or Android TV devices to date. No word on price or launch date yet though.
What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCs [Ars Technica]
When Microsoft launched Windows 11, it updated the minimum hardware requirements so that millions of PCs that were perfectly capable of running Windows 10 would not qualify to run the newer OS. But folks found workarounds that made it possible to install Windows 11.
With the end of support for Windows 10 coming up in about a year, this article looks at what it’s like to run Windows 11 on hardware that doesn’t officially support it. Long story short? Most things work including grabbing OS and app updates from Windows Update and the Microsoft Store… but Microsoft’s major annual updates need to be installed manually.
Modder turns a PlayStation 4 Slim into a handheld console [Tom’s Hardware]
This isn’t a handheld PS4 emulator. It uses a real PS4 Slim motherboard placed inside a 3D-printed case and paired with a 7 inch display.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJSLscnFd_M
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I’m still hoping to see the Pi 500 sooner rather than later… I have use for two of them in a classroom setting.
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Yeah, the workarounds to install windows 11 on unsupported hardware are not so much things that were “found” but were things Microsoft built into Windows 10 and 11. These aren’t guaranteed to last forever. “AllowUpgradesWithUnsupportedTPMorCPU” might remain an option for upgrading from windows 10, and maybe so will labconfig dwords in the preinstallation environment. (Although I forgot to set those in my 24h2 installer on an unsupported PC which had no OS installed at the time and the installation went through anyway. Xeon weirdness perhaps?)
What won’t work (on computers without TPM 2.0) is anything that depends on remote attestation, which at end of support for windows 10 many service providers will feel a lot more free to implement.
Also if Windows goes fully state-separated with most system files in a read-only partition (for example, to attest that nothing in there hashes any different than it’s supposed to), I won’t be surprised if it starts requiring virtualization-based security (which is what causes CPUs to be unsupported) for some reason even though I don’t know if it’s strictly necessary.Reply
thnx 4 infos
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