Raspberry Pi 4 Laptop

RE: Raspberry Pi 4 Laptop

mijk — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 17:04:10 GMT

The Pi-Top 2 provides enough power for the Pi 4B to run at full speed?

RE: Raspberry Pi 4 Laptop

willh83 — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 11:40:11 GMT

hi all! I really liked this raspberry laptop, so i want do do something like that. Which raspberry kit can you receommend?

Is any of these (https://www.bestadvisor.com/raspberry-pi-starter-kits ) will be good for a beginner?

Thanks

RE: Raspberry Pi 4 Laptop

ashby — Thu, 14 May 2020 11:04:57 GMT

I now have my PiTip 1 with a RiPi4 running Raspbian and it plays sound, but the volume control does not work.

I have a Speaker icon, which when I click shows a volume slider - but when I slide it down it does not affect the volume.

Did you get the volume control to work?

RE: Raspberry Pi 4 Laptop

ashby — Tue, 05 May 2020 11:47:31 GMT

I tried YouTube several times and there is no sound.

I also tried via the command line - but that just says no default audio device configured.

How much work was it getting Pi Top OS running - I have 4GB model.

RE: Raspberry Pi 4 Laptop

ashby — Tue, 05 May 2020 09:11:33 GMT

I have 2 x PiTop Speaker v2 and I am running Raspbian buster.

Maybe the Pi-Top OS route maybe the correct way to go?

I have installed pt-devices - but that did not work for me. At some stage I had a speaker icon, which I could select Internal or HDMI, but now my Speaker icon has a cross and it shows snd_rpi_hifberry_dac ?

RE: Raspberry Pi 4 Laptop

ashby — Tue, 05 May 2020 08:35:41 GMT

I used this post for inspiration to upgrade my sons PiTop1 with a RPi4.

All went ok - apart from sound - I have gone round and round in circles and cannot get it to output.

I have tried to fix it myself, and I even have a post on Upwork to see if I can pay someone to fix this. Any one with experience - please take a look / get in contact. I am desperate!

RE: Raspberry Pi 4 Laptop

radnoaz — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 01:36:46 GMT

Steve, I am having some issues with the 16GB Class 10 MicroSD I am using, and I will be replacing it tomorrow. But I am curious about something maybe you can comment on. Once I get the Pi-Top all set up, updated, battery icon, brightness slider added (thanks for the link above to all that handy stuff!!) I am trying to back up the card on my Windows 10 PC using Win32DiskImager. It keeps giving me this error

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and I am noticing in the Safely Remove list for the card that it is actually listing TWO partitions - Drive Q and Drive U - being on that SD card. Is it normal to have a second partition? I vaguely recall something about that from my early days working with rooting the first Android smartphones, but I don't remember what the additional partition was used for. I am wondering if this error has something to do with that second partition listing?

I had used SD Formatter to originally format the card into a single partition, and then used Etcher to write the Raspbian Buster with recommended software image onto the card. If there are better or newer tools for these tasks, please let me know.

The Pi-Top still boots up quickly and seems to run fine on the card after I got the above error and was unable to back it up. Any comments are welcome. [View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-7f448516-b54c-4146-86d3-95aab66a9eb7/2313.contentimage_5F00_1.png:16:16]

RE: Raspberry Pi 4 Laptop

radnoaz — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 15:28:00 GMT

Hi Steve,

Thanks for this great article! I had previously read it wasn't possible to fit the new Pi4 into the Pi-Top. I have done so with a model 4B, following your instructions, and used Etcher to flash Raspbian Buster "with recommended software" to an SD, and have the Pi-top booted. It is running, set up, and doing updates now. I own one of the original Pi-Tops from when they first sold, so I used that for this project, moving its previous Raspberry Pi board to a headless enclosure.

Any of you in the US looking to do this, I used this HDMI cable https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B008743J90/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 and it's micro connector is very thin, about the thickness of the Micro USB to Micro USB-C adapter used beside it, so I did not have to remove any of the connector plastic cover at all. I did have an issue writing Raspbian Buster "with recommended software" to the previously used Class 10 16GB MicroSD card, so I reformatted it with a handy free utility called SD Card Formatter, having read some time ago it can often remedy flaky SD cards. After that, Etcher was able to successfully flash the card without any errors, and it's up and running. [View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-7f448516-b54c-4146-86d3-95aab66a9eb7/contentimage_5F00_1.png:16:16]

Radnoaz

RE: Raspberry Pi 4 Laptop

jeromehess — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 17:56:19 GMT

Well

I just got an email saying the 'bordered' date is a mistake as the product has been discontinued.

Shame too, anyone who bought one and won't get around to using it I'll send you $100USD for it.

I will check back in Jan. Just in case, but now I push on for the pine64 guys......

Thanks Steve great build!

Tell us more about it as you get to use it more.....

RE: Raspberry Pi 4 Laptop

jeromehess — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 00:18:18 GMT

Steve thats a GREAT ob. and as someone who has been slaving over a soldering oron,dremel and nursing clipboard for a case (ill send you a pic if you want) thats a lot

now I looked at farnell and the closest thing i saw was the ceed (slate like) for 99 euro, can you send me a link i dont mind the conversion or ship time.

Thanks

they may have caught on though because closest thing i can find is 213E

RE: Raspberry Pi 4 Laptop

14rhb — Sun, 24 Nov 2019 13:04:51 GMT

A great write up Steve, thank you. I bought a RPi4 recently to use as a generally left on, 24hour, laptop that anyone can use at home. Your review is very helpful in me deciding to house it in a small case (with keyboard, mouse and TV monitor) or to also purchase the Pi-Top from CPC. The price seems to have gone up slightly (£91 before VAT) but still makes a very cheap laptop combo.