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Boox Mira Pro – 25.3" E Ink Monitor

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Re: Boox Mira Pro – 25.3" E Ink Monitor

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Post by WJW »

fho wrote: post #17
deanc wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Might be a bit of a struggle without syntax highlighting? Contrast won't get you very far.

You might be surprised how far contrast (and cursive, bold, etc) can get you. Eg: https://github.com/fxn/vim-monochrome edit: Also, and probably a lot more controversial, code structure matters a lot. No syntax highlighting will save you if your code consists of opaque blocks of text.

I'll admit that that example did more than I expected with the limited tools it has, but it is still rather far from the things full color highlighting can do.

Re: Boox Mira Pro – 25.3" E Ink Monitor

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Post by sabellito »

patall wrote: post #10

My dad has bought the 25.3'' E ink monitor from Dasung. From what he tells, it does not have a backlight and is itself to dark for his taste outside of middle of the day. Maybe it will be better during summer or in bright condition but sitting further away from these devices may require more than just reflectiveness for some users.

That's kinda the point of these things, to not be backlit; you're supposed to provide the needed amount of light yourself.

Re: Boox Mira Pro – 25.3" E Ink Monitor

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Post by mrjin »

fbn79 wrote: post #12
patall wrote: post #10

My dad has bought the 25.3'' E ink monitor from Dasung. From what he tells, it does not have a backlight and is itself to dark for his taste outside of middle of the day. Maybe it will be better during summer or in bright condition but sitting further away from these devices may require more than just reflectiveness for some users.

eInk is not transparent, you canno have backlight. It's objective is to emulate ink on paper.

It might be true you cannot have backlight, but for sure you can have front light. My ~7 years old Kindle paperwhite has that.

Re: Boox Mira Pro – 25.3" E Ink Monitor

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Post by scns »

robbedpeter wrote: post #20
h2odragon wrote: post #2

$800 to pre-order. (Corrected: $1800 for the pre-order, $800 for the smaller one) E-ink is one of those great technologies that seems like it has potential but won't "arrive" until after the patents all expire.

Seems bonkers to me. If they'd been more permissive with licensing the tech, they'd have made a lot more money, advanced the tech, and they could have exploited spin off. The way it was handled seems petty and small minded in a stupid and greedy way.

Might be motivated by FOMO. Fear is a bad advisor sometimes.

Re: Boox Mira Pro – 25.3" E Ink Monitor

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Post by [deleted] »

fbn79 wrote: post #12
patall wrote: post #10

My dad has bought the 25.3'' E ink monitor from Dasung. From what he tells, it does not have a backlight and is itself to dark for his taste outside of middle of the day. Maybe it will be better during summer or in bright condition but sitting further away from these devices may require more than just reflectiveness for some users.

eInk is not transparent, you canno have backlight. It's objective is to emulate ink on paper.

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Re: Boox Mira Pro – 25.3" E Ink Monitor

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Post by rbanffy »

WJW wrote: post #21
fho wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You might be surprised how far contrast (and cursive, bold, etc) can get you. Eg: https://github.com/fxn/vim-monochrome edit: Also, and probably a lot more controversial, code structure matters a lot. No syntax highlighting will save you if your code consists of opaque blocks of text.

I'll admit that that example did more than I expected with the limited tools it has, but it is still rather far from the things full color highlighting can do.

You can, indeed, do a lot without colors. I actually find it a lot less distracting to have various shades of the same color and highlight with bold, italics, and a couple shades of gray. The other day I was wondering if I could add some non-ascii chars to htop's monochrome mode (looked like a pain, will pick it up later) to explore textures instead of colors.

I remember using Think Pascal on the Apple II (too slow to be of any use) but it did a great job of highlighting the structure of the program under the source code. This is what I want syntax/semantic highlighting to do for me.

These screens are higher resolution and can have multiple shades of gray, which is much more than what those pioneers had to communicate with their users.

Horrendously expensive though.

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