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Re: Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet

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Post by dtx1 »

sparrish wrote: post #6

Android 13 with 8GB RAM. I'm not familiar with the MediaTek Helio G99 CPU. Will this perform well or just be another underpowered tablet for $800?

> 2x Arm Cortex-A76 up to 2.2GHz > 6x Arm Cortex-A55 up to 2.0GHz > LPDDR4X > Arm Mali-G57 MC2

Not great, not terrible. I'd say lower middle class phone, roughly equivalent to the Snapdragon 680. The real question is longterm software and security support. I'd bet good money this will se one android update and security patches late or never at best.

Re: Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet

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Post by NBJack »

Oof. I hope the tablet is better than the website. I think I need to switch to a device with a dedicated GPU to see it right. My laptop is struggling, and it's running a 12th gen i5. They seem to be using a video provider that can't keep up either.

Still, the tablet looks exciting, especially since it's based on Android. I'm curious as to how they overcame the refresh rate issue that plagues so many similar displays.

Re: Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet

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Post by rchaud »

normalaccess wrote: post #7
spaceisballer wrote: post #4

It’s funny that Tech is the source of and solution to all of our problems. But my real critique is that all portable devices these days are around $1000 dollars. I’m sure this display makes the device expensive, why can’t we just have a more humane workflow in our current devices instead of buying a new device?

For some, e-ink displays are the holy grail of tech. I have several e-ink devices but the real hangup is the refresh rate. If this solves that problem in a meaningful way it could be game changing.

Images look terrible on e-ink, so that's an issue as well.

Re: Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet

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Post by normalaccess »

andrewcchen wrote: post #14

It's not an e-ink display, but rather a monochrome transreflective lcd. [1] [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/eink/comments/1bk294i/comment/kvx17...

Hmmm, a little disappointed but I'm I still very interested. My favorite smart watch was a pebble and they used a transflective display, I loved it. If this is more of the same but refined and bigger count me in.

Re: Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet

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Post by rchaud »

jll29 wrote: post #9
normalaccess wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For some, e-ink displays are the holy grail of tech. I have several e-ink devices but the real hangup is the refresh rate. If this solves that problem in a meaningful way it could be game changing.

I agree, refresh rate is an issue that is more important than energy usage, colors or life time (apparently e-ink dies quicker when viewing videos). I'm just experimenting with a USB-based external e-ink display to see if it is capable of reading/writing/editing technical documents (started last week), using a device with a 50% more affordable price point. My first impression was I needed to increase the font size to…

Video forces e-ink screens to redraw the scene 30 times per second. For static text like an ebook, the display redrawing the scene far less frequently, maybe once every 30 seconds, if that's how long it takes to read a page of text.

Re: Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet

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Post by blamestross »

andrewcchen wrote: post #14

It's not an e-ink display, but rather a monochrome transreflective lcd. [1] [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/eink/comments/1bk294i/comment/kvx17...

I'm totally ok with that and actual communications from the company are very clear about what it is. Looks like this is out of their control.

Re: Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet

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Post by normalaccess »

NBJack wrote: post #12

Oof. I hope the tablet is better than the website. I think I need to switch to a device with a dedicated GPU to see it right. My laptop is struggling, and it's running a 12th gen i5. They seem to be using a video provider that can't keep up either. Still, the tablet looks exciting, especially since it's based on Android. I'm curious as to how they overcame the refresh rate issue that plagues so many similar displays.

It's a transflective display. Although not E-Ink it may solve many of the same problems while having a reasonable refresh rate and less burn in.

Comment from Daylight_Co https://www.reddit.com/r/eink/comments/1bk294i/comment/kvx17...

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