Good news for any usage: The price is cheap ($84 on Amazon) for a 64-bit A53-based quad-core board with HDMI, bluetooth, GPS, and more.
Bad news for laptop usage: RAM is limited to 533MHz 1GB (RPi limitation). It's a pity because if it had just one more GB of RAM, it could support desktop distributions of Linux or Unix fully. This is the same gripe that I have about RPi (E.g. launch Firefox or Chrome on RPi).
I see this more as a step-up from RPi for the same applications (science, engineering, IoT, etc.).
WARNING about GPS. On the Dragonboard, the GPS is only raw RF/IF data samples and that's not supported in any Debian branch currently. I found http://gnss-sdr.org/ but havent been able to compile it for the Db.
So basically anything that you're building that requires position reporting, this isn't a great solution. Your best bet is to just get a RPi with a GPS hat which will cost the same.
