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The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet

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Re: The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet

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Post by klunger »

My friend has one and I got to try it a couple weeks ago. The writing experience is as fantastic as the article describes. But, the rendering of screens is slow and you have to look at bizarro artifacts for a second or two before a new screen is shown. This is... not great. But, I am guessing this can be improved on in future versions. I am waiting for a better/cheaper model to come out, but fully intend to get one when it does.

edit: clarity

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Post by jonnybgood »

> the reMarkable tablet definitely has the potential to make paper notebooks obsolete.

Nope. Maybe the later generations of the device and competitors entering the market forcing a lower price will, though. I’d pay 300 tops for it.

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Post by devwinportable »

from my experience, "apple pencil" is a piece of crap (too slippary, too heavy, requires charging thru the ipad's port ...wtf?)

Surface Pro / Galaxy Notebooks(wacom-based) with "a layer of finely textured acrylic glass" will be a much better comparison.

> but it comes at the cost of not being able to flip through documents using finger swipes or taps

so no multi-finger zoom gestures

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Post by simonbarker87 »

jonnybgood wrote: post #3

> the reMarkable tablet definitely has the potential to make paper notebooks obsolete. Nope. Maybe the later generations of the device and competitors entering the market forcing a lower price will, though. I’d pay 300 tops for it.

Perhaps that’s why the article used the word “potential”? As in: not now but maybe in the future... like, later generations perhaps?

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Post by jonnybgood »

simonbarker87 wrote: post #5
jonnybgood wrote: post #3

> the reMarkable tablet definitely has the potential to make paper notebooks obsolete. Nope. Maybe the later generations of the device and competitors entering the market forcing a lower price will, though. I’d pay 300 tops for it.

Perhaps that’s why the article used the word “potential”? As in: not now but maybe in the future... like, later generations perhaps?

Or it can be a competitor that does it better. As it stands now I don’t see remarkable making notebooks obsolete. It’s a pretty bold statement.

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Post by tlrobinson »

devwinportable wrote: post #4

from my experience, "apple pencil" is a piece of crap (too slippary, too heavy, requires charging thru the ipad's port ...wtf?) Surface Pro / Galaxy Notebooks(wacom-based) with "a layer of finely textured acrylic glass" will be a much better comparison. > but it comes at the cost of not being able to flip through documents using finger swipes or taps so no multi-finger zoom gestures

> requires charging thru the ipad's port ...wtf

It comes with an adapter so you can charge it with same Lightning charger you use to charge the iPad itself.

I almost accidentally threw it out with the packaging. They should have incorporated into the cap so you'd always have it with you.

Also it's kind of silly they didn't make that end (where an eraser usually is) function as an eraser.

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