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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 deepstack »

deanc wrote: post #14
lambdaba wrote: post #7

I couldn't (easily) find information about refresh rates and such, what I want is to know if this is usable for coding. Frankly I'm down to go with lower stats for this, because I so want to be able to use a computer with just natural light. If anybody has been doing this I'd love to read about your experience!

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

I don't care about syntax highlighting, being coding in black and white terminal for a really long time. I care more about screen to be more like paper than screen. LED color screen really hurts my eyes. Coding in natural light on paper would be much better.

Re: Boox Mira Pro – 25.3" E Ink Monitor

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Post by archerx »

vxa_victor wrote: post #32

These products look amazing but a major drawback is the lack of colors. Any chance e-ink will get color support?

They exist and they look cool kind of like comic books. They are expensive and the refresh rate is slower though.

https://www.waveshare.com/5.65inch-e-paper-module-f.htm

Re: Boox Mira Pro – 25.3" E Ink Monitor

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Post by rbanffy »

ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #8
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.

>it has potential but won't "arrive" until after the patents all expire This is somewhat of a misconception. The high cost today has nothing to do with patents anymore, for the most part, though that' still a speedbump. It getting good yields in the fabs for the e-ink films that's the problem, and that's where e-ink has the secret sauce and why others can't compete even though they know how it works. It's like saying…

> It getting good yields in the fabs for the e-ink films that's the problem

There is a decent market for rigid (heavy) 20-30" ~100 dpi panels as desktop monitors. Lowering the pixel density would certainly increase the yield, as would the rigid back. There is a high premium for light panels for e-readers and portables, but for use as a desktop monitor, we can deal with a lot more weight and, since we see them from further away, we can deal with lower densities.

From where I sit, it's hard to tell whether my laptop has a high-density screen or a more normal 1080 one.

I'd love to have one, but I wouldn't even consider it if it's twice as expensive as a 4K HDR 120Hz LCD monitor.

Re: Boox Mira Pro – 25.3" E Ink Monitor

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Post by vasilakisfil »

zwirbl wrote: post #13

I couldn't find a video of the display in use, so here it goes (for the 13.3" version) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBfWkxOfUfQ seems a little slow and the screen refreshes sometimes excessive, but much better than I expected

for some reason, from the video, screen doesn't feel the same quality as other e-ink readers like kindle.

edit: I mean, kindle videos feel like you are reading a real paper, while here feels like you are in an actual screen.

Re: Boox Mira Pro – 25.3" E Ink Monitor

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Post by leemailll »

zwirbl wrote: post #13

I couldn't find a video of the display in use, so here it goes (for the 13.3" version) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBfWkxOfUfQ seems a little slow and the screen refreshes sometimes excessive, but much better than I expected

try this https://jvod.300hu.com/vod/product/0cecde96-786d-418d-a5b7-3...
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