$765.00 USD is a reasonable price, even if it's only 8GB max
memory. Would really like to know how hot it runs though, I've
been searching for a laptop that stays cool, even when pushed
Their marketing page (with a little more detail) for the same
laptop is:
> I've been searching for a laptop that stays cool, even when pushed
That would be an intentionally throttled laptop, which is not what most people would want. Because if the laptop "stays cool even when pushed", it means it could have been pushed more.
However, if low thermal output is what you want to optimise for, then an M1 macbook air always running on low power mode is a very good candidate, and abundant in second hand market for very good prices. Or any M1/M2/M3 laptop as long as you run it on low power mode.
I'm definitely getting one after the war. Have been looking for something RISC-V to play with just recently. Not sure if it's really the first RISC-V Laptop ever since there is also Lichee Console 4a, and it's technically a laptop too. But this one is much better.
It's been out much longer than the Lichee Console 4A. They started taking orders for the Roma in around October 2022, and delivered them in October 2023 I think.
If a tablet with a keyboard/touchpad dock counts (i.e. CPU in the screen, not in the keyboard part) then the Pine64 PineTab-V has been shipping since July 2023, several months before the Roma. It has exactly the same CPU as the Roma, but is $210 with 8 GB RAM and 128 GB eMMC (or $160 with half the storage).
