News World's first RISC-V tablet is finally fully baked — PineTab-V now ships with completely functional Linux for $149

[Admin]

At the 2025 RISC-V Summit, a full Debian-based table was introduced.

World's first RISC-V tablet is finally fully baked — PineTab-V now ships with completely functional Linux for $149 : Read more

 

[Sam Hobbs]

The title says $149, the article says $159 and the actual current price shown for the product is $225. Also, the article says general-purpose but the product page says:

• Do not buy unless you intend to use it for development or early evaluation purposes.

 

[MobileJAD]

The title says $149, the article says $159 and the actual current price shown for the product is $225. Also, the article says general-purpose but the product page says:

• Do not buy unless you intend to use it for development or early evaluation purposes.

To be honest while I don't know much about that tablet myself, but even if the hardware for the tablet is finalized and ready for mass production, RISC itself as a platform with software support is nowhere near the more polished user experience that the regular Linux user can get with ARM and various SBCs out there on the market now. So I would personally leave RISC to the software developers to work on for awhile longer, and even if I don't know the finer details of whatever RISC processor they used for that tablet, I personally wouldn't expect it to be a speed demon by any means, which alone I wouldn't recommend for "general purpose" users, even if they are seasoned Linux consumers.

 

[jlake3]

To be honest while I don't know much about that tablet myself, but even if the hardware for the tablet is finalized and ready for mass production, RISC itself as a platform with software support is nowhere near the more polished user experience that the regular Linux user can get with ARM and various SBCs out there on the market now. So I would personally leave RISC to the software developers to work on for awhile longer, and even if I don't know the finer details of whatever RISC processor they used for that tablet, I personally wouldn't expect it to be a speed demon by any means, which alone I wouldn't recommend for "general purpose" users, even if they are seasoned Linux consumers.

This, this, THIS. I feel like authors/editors/contributors here REALLY want RISC-V to be a thing in the consumer market with titles like "World's first RISC-V tablet is finally fully baked" and "Steam gaming finally comes to RISC-V", and there's this overarching narrative that RISC-V is about to explode into the laptop/desktop ecosystem... but the reality is that RISC-V laptops/tablets/mini-PCs have the pricing, availability, and support of dev-kits. I was just downloading some updated Linux ISOs to have on hand, and Debian doesn't have a stable RISC-V build on their download page, only a testing build... and they're the distro that always seems to have a build for everything!

And while performance numbers are hard to find, Chips and Cheese tested some hashing, compression, and CPU encoding workloads, and has the SiFive P550 coming in behind a Goldmont Celeron, an ARM A73, an ARM A55, and an Athlon II X4 651.

 

[davidjkay]

I don't see much purpose... easier to do development work on an emulator or one of those cheap tiny computers if that is all it is good for.

 

[davidjkay]

This, this, THIS. I feel like authors/editors/contributors here REALLY want RISC-V to be a thing in the consumer market with titles like "World's first RISC-V tablet is finally fully baked" and "Steam gaming finally comes to RISC-V", and there's this overarching narrative that RISC-V is about to explode into the laptop/desktop ecosystem... but the reality is that RISC-V laptops/tablets/mini-PCs have the pricing, availability, and support of dev-kits. I was just downloading some updated Linux ISOs to have on hand, and Debian doesn't have a stable RISC-V build on their download page, only a testing build... and they're the distro that always seems to have a build for everything!

And while performance numbers are hard to find, Chips and Cheese tested some , and has the SiFive P550 coming in behind a Goldmont Celeron, an ARM A73, an ARM A55, and an Athlon II X4 651.

I don't think hashing, compression, and CPU encoding workloads is very good test... mature platforms will be better tweaked and more likely to have dedicated hardware, or at least fancy extensions like AVX-512.

general purpose computing is probably more its thing.

 

[das_stig]

Unfair to benchmark them this way, like when ARM started, they are for dedicated tasks rather than a general work horse, given time, software availability they may be a via ARM competitor, but not today.

 

[Valheru1970]

The title says $149, the article says $159 and the actual current price shown for the product is $225. Also, the article says general-purpose but the product page says:

• Do not buy unless you intend to use it for development or early evaluation purposes.

Check out the bottom of the product page for more prices.

8GB/128GB is $209.99
4GB/64GB is $159.99

PINETAB-V - 10.1" 8GB/128GB RISC-V based Linux tablet with detachable backlit keyboard - PINE STORE

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