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Evertop: E-ink IBM XT clone with 100+ hours of battery life

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Post by bigfatkitten »

hliyan wrote: post #82
jmward01 wrote: post #15

I think there is a class of device here that is missing. Low power but forever devices that have some basic functionality. Over time I could see this taking over laptops and the like as ultra-low-power became more and more capable.

On that note, whatever happened to netbooks? As someone who writes a lot and need a mobile device to do it on, they used to be perfect. Can't seem to find the form factor anymore. Even the smallest Chromebook seems only slightly smaller than a laptop.

I had a Dell Latitude 2120 netbook for many years and I miss it. Small, decent display, good battery life, built like a bank vault. There’s nothing out there anymore with all of those properties.

Re: Evertop: E-ink IBM XT clone with 100+ hours of battery life

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Post by hulitu »

squigz wrote: post #25

Fairly unrelated, but loading that repo's page is nearly 200MB... Was a bit surprised at that.

> Fairly unrelated, but loading that repo's page is nearly 200MB... Was a bit surprised at that.

We have more than 8 GB of RAM, TB of hard drive and GHz computing power. We are humans. We just don't care. If we can waste something, we waste it. /s

Re: Evertop: E-ink IBM XT clone with 100+ hours of battery life

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Post by simondotau »

EvanAnderson wrote: post #92
binarymax wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just last month I finally moved on from my iPhone 6, which had been working great for 10 years, because some critical apps stopped working unless I upgraded, but couldn’t upgrade because apple no longer released iOS updates. It needed a new battery, but held a charge on low power mode for 8 hours, and otherwise was perfectly fine.

Same with my wife's original iPhone SE. The hardware is doing fine but she's being forced to "upgrade" because of software. It's galling.

“Galling” and yet the iPhone SE had legendary long software support, more than any phone which came before. Seven years might not seem remarkable now but back in 2017 it was rare for Android phones to get more than two years of software support, and often that was mostly security patches, plus one major OS upgrade if you were lucky.

Re: Evertop: E-ink IBM XT clone with 100+ hours of battery life

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Post by multjoy »

kstrauser wrote: post #105
RodgerTheGreat wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How about the ZeroWriter Ink? https://www.crowdsupply.com/zerowriter/zerowriter-ink The focus on the bundled firmware is word processing, but it's open-source and built around the popular ESP32 microcontroller family.

Wow, I love the looks of that. I have a Freewrite Alpha that's very similar at first glance, but it has a tiny LCD screen and isn't open source.

And if you fancy making your own…

https://github.com/unkyulee/micro-journal

Re: Evertop: E-ink IBM XT clone with 100+ hours of battery life

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Post by int_19h »

6SixTy wrote: post #62
fnord77 wrote: post #27

what's the rationale for x86? To run vintage software? I would love an eink laptop like this but with ARM, modern ports and linux

Then search for Raspberry Pi laptop cases and go for the one that can hold your choice of eink display + driver?

It does seem a bit strange given the overall focus on power consumption and battery life. Surely emulation is a very heavy tax on the hardware? Imagine what it could do with software running natively.

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Post by genewitch »

pmcjones wrote: post #47
genewitch wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Intel makes the quark which is like a 486dx that runs on a watch battery. There are a few models now, but I think that qualifies?

The Quark was discontinued in 2019. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quark

still existed, i have 2 of them. they're on ebay for <20USD
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