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What is the lifespan of high refresh e-ink devices such as this monitor? Is it measured in a billion refreshes for example? E-ink displays have been slow to update but like this monitor there are a bunch of e-ink tablets which even allow you to watch videos and play games. In my head it feels like it detoriate the device faster.
The declared generic (update frequency agnostic) lifespan for E-Ink displays a few years ago was:
10 million switches per dot
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
I still don't understand how there isn't a market for a work _laptop_ with a display like this? - Longer battery life - easy on the eyes for long sessions reading/writing - Allows me to actually work outside!!! There is a huge market of people out there (Thinking about the typical ThinkPad users) that don't give 2 craps about color accuracy. We literally just want to read and write. Anyone envolved in Product Managem…
China is the only country innovating right now. The rest of the world really needs to start building combined manufacturing and innovation hubs like Shenzhen.
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I still don't understand how there isn't a market for a work _laptop_ with a display like this? - Longer battery life - easy on the eyes for long sessions reading/writing - Allows me to actually work outside!!! There is a huge market of people out there (Thinking about the typical ThinkPad users) that don't give 2 craps about color accuracy. We literally just want to read and write. Anyone envolved in Product Managem…
The old OLPC laptop had a weird screen which kind of became a black and white e-ink screen when the brightness got turned all the way down, and was a quite normal colour screen otherwise. No clue how it was made though, and if there has been any further work in that direction.
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I still don't understand how there isn't a market for a work _laptop_ with a display like this? - Longer battery life - easy on the eyes for long sessions reading/writing - Allows me to actually work outside!!! There is a huge market of people out there (Thinking about the typical ThinkPad users) that don't give 2 craps about color accuracy. We literally just want to read and write. Anyone envolved in Product Managem…
Hard sell, but a laptop with a reversible 2-1 screen, one side OLED, and one e-ink, would probably be a winner. Or something like the framework laptop, but with a plugable/ unplaggable screen, and you switch as needed. I would buy one. Espacially on travel, where the prospect of working outside in nature, and having a one week battery life would be fantastic for work.
The Lenovo ThinkBook Plus has an E-Ink display on the outer side - but I think it remains an outer side.
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I'm as much of a fan of the potentials of this technology as anyone, but it really look like it's terrible to use as a main display even for non-multimedia applications. I.e. try setting your mouse or keyboard to have even 50-100ms of lag, a lot of people would find that very distracting to use even for just using a terminal Emacs/Vim & for writing plain-text. There's a reason these things are being marketed as "seco…
> ..try setting your mouse or keyboard to have even 50-100ms of lag, a lot of people would find that very distracting to use Except that Remarkable 2 has 20ms latency, same as iPad's. [1] That makes pencil behave like a real one; that is a user cannot perceive the difference between writing on eink tablet vs writing on paper. [1] https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/17/remarkables-redesigned-e-p...
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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.
In my experience syntax highlighting as a tool mostly help with certain classes of errors (e.g unclosed string or comment), not visually tokenising text for me to understand.
I've seen some such uncoloured theme (nofrils) that would de-emphasise either comments or code, and you could toggle between the two states, which I found quite useful in nicely commented files:
https://robertmeta.com/posts/syntax-highlighting-off/
There are a bunch of learnings and a couple of links to references in that article. Ironically one of the most prevalent I experienced was this one, which I found very odd because picking a colorscheme for my $EDITOR is quite literally a choice that would affect only myself:
> People on the internet will get very angry at you if you tell them you don’t like syntax highlighting. VERY ANGRY.
Some of these vim "color"schemes:
https://github.com/robertmeta/nofrils
https://github.com/clinstid/eink.vim
https://github.com/ikaros/smpl-vim
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> so that you could swap it with a regular display You may just want to lay an EPD tablet on the original screen and link the two. Check: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmenti... Issues? Yes. HDMI does not allow for the touchscreen, and you may want that. And the hardware system must optimize battery life, which can be awful on the HDMI connection. What you really want is an optimized data conn…
> Or, an EPD tablet with the ability to use more than Android... This is my hope with the future PineNote running a Linux distro.
> NPU (Neural Processing Unit) Capabilities: * Neural network acceleration engine with processing performance of up to 0.8 TOPS; * Supports integer 8 and integer 16 convolution operations; * Supports the following deep learning frameworks: TensorFlow, TF-lite, Pytorch, Caffe, ONNX, MXNet, Keras, Darknet
Very odd for an EPD tablet!
Not a word on refresh rate.
Unless they have some wizz-bang new tech that no one else is using yet, which they would shout about if they were, with eInk you can pretty much say “if your use case makes you care much about refresh rates then eInk isn't a good choice for you ATM”.