Stefan Schaeckeler wrote an excellent review of the PbP[0]. The following excerpt might be interesting to some.

The Pinebook Pro is an open laptop but also a black box at the same time. It is not possible to debug early boot problems without a serial console cable.

The cable costs $6.99 currently and is a separate product[1].

Personally, the only reason stopping me from getting this laptop is the import tax. A quick search on the Pine64 forum revealed it to be around $100 for my country. Adding all the expenses, $350 for this machine is much more than what I can spend.

[0] http://students.engr.scu.edu/~sschaeck/misc/pinebookpro.html

[1] https://store.pine64.org/?product=pinebook-serial-console

I think people interested in early boot logs are also able to build their own debug cables for $0.

I meant the cable is not included with the laptop.