05-29-2019, 06:13 PM
Well Im happy to say it works, at least as a Dev platform, its quite possible to create code, and should be ok to send to a target system to run. Its actually quite a nice little laptop, though my old eyes are struggling with the high res 1920x1080 screen res. Its quite capable of browsing the web, even running youtube vids, albeit with some stutter. And the editor packages I tried al work fine.
But when it comes to actually running compile graphic progs in KDE Neon 5.15, which is the default OS, it simply does not have the drivers, and performance on the unit itself is painful, with single digit frame rates for the full screen 3D demo... Not actually unexpected, and its probably fairer to reduce the res and try for a much smaller screen. I am hoping some of the other available OS's have hardware graphic drivers....We'll see.
Right now I've had to put it on charge as I probably overdid it running the demo's and its refusing to reboot. But I can give it an overnight charge and try again.
But when it comes to actually running compile graphic progs in KDE Neon 5.15, which is the default OS, it simply does not have the drivers, and performance on the unit itself is painful, with single digit frame rates for the full screen 3D demo... Not actually unexpected, and its probably fairer to reduce the res and try for a much smaller screen. I am hoping some of the other available OS's have hardware graphic drivers....We'll see.
Right now I've had to put it on charge as I probably overdid it running the demo's and its refusing to reboot. But I can give it an overnight charge and try again.
Brian Beuken
Lecturer in Game Programming at Breda University of Applied Sciences.
Author of The Fundamentals of C/C++ Game Programming: Using Target-based Development on SBC's
Lecturer in Game Programming at Breda University of Applied Sciences.
Author of The Fundamentals of C/C++ Game Programming: Using Target-based Development on SBC's