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Lenovo’s new Yoga Book replaces the keyboard with an E Ink screen

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I'd like to see a laptop with an e-ink display I can code on. That way I can go and sit in the sun.

I wonder why transflective displays are not more common for laptops. My hiking GPS has one and it's really great. The brighter the sun shines, the better you can read it.

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I always turn on 'tap to click' on my trackpad so you can tap anywhere to click, and two finger tap to right click. I haven't missed physical buttons since getting used to this. Is there a particular use case that the physical buttons are better for? I can imagine gaming at least.

On most devices tap-to-click is on by default. It’s always the first thing I turn off. I have always found it completely useless and it turns incidental touches into accidental clicks. “Oops, guess I sent that email.” This isn’t relevant to the parent’s complaint, though. Without dedicated buttons, you’re relying on the driver to distinguish between a one and two finger click. That detection, even on Apple devices, i…

Man I really disagree about Apple's new trackpads. I feel very uneasy using them. It's almost an "uncanny valley" type feeling.

Re: Lenovo’s new Yoga Book replaces the keyboard with an E Ink screen

#34

I'm still consistently enraged at trackpads without physically distinct left and right buttons. No one does them right. Not even Apple.

>No one does them right. Not even Apple.

Not even Apple? That made me laugh. As best I can recall, Apple is to blame for no one having them. Apple introduced no buttons on their models and other manufacturers followed.

Since this article is about a Lenovo laptop, I'll point out that some Lenovo laptops (typically the big ones) still have physical left and right buttons for the trackpad. (I prefer their TrackPoint pointing sticks to trackpads myself, but that's a whole other discussion).

Re: Lenovo’s new Yoga Book replaces the keyboard with an E Ink screen

#35

I'd like to see a laptop with an e-ink display I can code on. That way I can go and sit in the sun.

My only personal experience with e-ink displays is from my almost decade old Kindle and that was way too slow to be usable interactively for anything complex. Has the state of the art improved to the point that coding on a e-ink display is viable? What about color?

Regarding TFA typing on a flat surface sounds painful, at this point you effectively have a tablet-style keyboard. That being said I'm a keyboard snob who's currently typing on a mechanical keyboard with blank keys so I'm obviously not the target audience.

Re: Lenovo’s new Yoga Book replaces the keyboard with an E Ink screen

#38

I'd like to see a laptop with an e-ink display I can code on. That way I can go and sit in the sun.

Well. Just flip the laptop, enable the on screen keyboard and wait for the screen hack thingy that will enable the use of the e-ink as the main screen to be released on github.

Re: Lenovo’s new Yoga Book replaces the keyboard with an E Ink screen

#39

I'd like to see a laptop with an e-ink display I can code on. That way I can go and sit in the sun.

Well. Just flip the laptop, enable the on screen keyboard and wait for the screen hack thingy that will enable the use of the e-ink as the main screen to be released on github.

As someone who had a Kobo EReader a long while ago; coding on eink is painful. The screen latency and constantly flashing will ruin your day even with the joy of being able to code in bright daylight. Unless there is some magic advancements in eink latency that I don't know about...

Re: Lenovo’s new Yoga Book replaces the keyboard with an E Ink screen

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well. Just flip the laptop, enable the on screen keyboard and wait for the screen hack thingy that will enable the use of the e-ink as the main screen to be released on github.

As someone who had a Kobo EReader a long while ago; coding on eink is painful. The screen latency and constantly flashing will ruin your day even with the joy of being able to code in bright daylight. Unless there is some magic advancements in eink latency that I don't know about...

It's not cheap, but there are EInk displays that have low latency:

https://youtu.be/i3wP-GSG1NY?t=242

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