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how does this criticism not apply to monitors or tablets, which boox already makes?
Yeah, a lot of negative comments, from people coming up with all sorts of multimedia use cases, when there is clearly a market gap and plenty of people that want work houses without multimedia capability.
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I use NetGuard on mine to prevent it from phoning home, and restrict internet connections to Firefox and a couple of other apps that I trust. I also mostly use mine with wifi off, since it's an ereader/notetaking device that doesn't need to constantly drain battery via wireless internet. I am a little nervous about the trustworthiness of Onyx, but at the same time... I don't really trust my smart TV, or my old Kindle…
What is Onyx? I didn’t see that mentioned.
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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…
I've read previously on HN that there's one company with a stranglehold on the e-ink patent and so the prices are artificially high for the screens. This probably would make a e-ink laptop or tablet more expensive than it should be. But yes, I agree. I've wanted an e-ink laptop for working outside for years.
I wouldn't believe such extreme claims without any evidence. Please see my comment history for my repeated attempts to get to the bottom of this. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28740452#28746303
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I've read previously on HN that there's one company with a stranglehold on the e-ink patent and so the prices are artificially high for the screens. This probably would make a e-ink laptop or tablet more expensive than it should be. But yes, I agree. I've wanted an e-ink laptop for working outside for years.
We saw the same trajectory with high refresh rate displays. Back in the CRT days, you could set your display to 200+Hz on some monitors, 85Hz was common, and 72Hz was the minimum. At the same time, you had devices with reflective LCDs that worked outside. Then LCD monitors came along, and suddenly we went from 1600x1200@75Hz to 1280x1024@60Hz. Anyone who complained was placed in nutjob territory -- "you can't see mor…
Which patents? How will any company get past G = τ / γ ? You do realize that in the last 30 years of development in electrophoretics, the update time has remained around 700ms right? Those who do better like Clearink do it by sacrificing bistability.
Please see my comment history, eg: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28740452#28746303 , for why I strongly doubt your claims. I don't see how your observations about LCD apply to electrophoresis, unless there's some new physics that you're describing.
...but can it run Crysis?
There is a guy who wrote a demoscene demo for a C64 disk drive: the drive itself contains a 6502 and the cable could transmit B/W video data. Audio amazingly obtained from mechanics. But I have never seen a demoscene demo from the electronics of a monitor display .
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I can't speak to e-ink but regarding screen time addiction, I used Gray-Switch ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vegardit.g... ) to turn my phone display black and white, and immediately my phone use decreased by 66%.
I do this too on my iPhone - like all the really good iPhone settings, it’s an accessibility option, under Display -> Color Filters. You can also set up the “accessibility shortcut” so triple-clicking the side button enables or disables it. It really reduces the intensity of the phone - you never realize just how garish the color choices are for almost every app out there until you see it in B&W.