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

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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...

So the same as a monitor that was recently featured on a popular YouTube channel? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0TcGjzKbag

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

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Hi yall, founder of Daylight here. Happy to answer any questions you have. Long time lurker, so this is pretty cool to finally take part :) I made this because I wanted the eye-strain free and minimalist qualities of my kindle/Eink applied to so much more of what I do on a computer. Lack of speed and ghosting felt like it made traditional Eink impossible to do most computing tasks. So we focused on making the most Pa…

Adding an additional comment here for a little extra visibility. I would absolutely love, like really love, a USB-C portrait monitor version of this. If I could just plug this in to my existing laptop and use it for reading specs, technical docs, …etc that would be amazing. Android tablet is a tough sell for my employer due to compliance, security, and such. So buying one of those for work use would take like a year…

Why not just buy a Mira Pro? https://onyxboox.com/boox_mirapro

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

#523

Hi yall, founder of Daylight here. Happy to answer any questions you have. Long time lurker, so this is pretty cool to finally take part :) I made this because I wanted the eye-strain free and minimalist qualities of my kindle/Eink applied to so much more of what I do on a computer. Lack of speed and ghosting felt like it made traditional Eink impossible to do most computing tasks. So we focused on making the most Pa…

Adding an additional comment here for a little extra visibility. I would absolutely love, like really love, a USB-C portrait monitor version of this. If I could just plug this in to my existing laptop and use it for reading specs, technical docs, …etc that would be amazing. Android tablet is a tough sell for my employer due to compliance, security, and such. So buying one of those for work use would take like a year…

shut up and take my money.

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

#524

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Adding an additional comment here for a little extra visibility. I would absolutely love, like really love, a USB-C portrait monitor version of this. If I could just plug this in to my existing laptop and use it for reading specs, technical docs, …etc that would be amazing. Android tablet is a tough sell for my employer due to compliance, security, and such. So buying one of those for work use would take like a year…

I second this. I really enjoy reading and writing on an Onyx e-ink tab, and I like the full Android functionality, but I can never use it for work or even for personal email logins, because I don't trust their custom Android build. I would be somewhat more inclined to trust Daylight than Onyx, but any custom OS is too potentially vulnerable to backdoors for my use cases. Something like this that you could load your o…

https://onyxboox.com/boox_mirapro

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

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FYI: goodereader has a bad reputation in the eink world. Their reviews are fair but their shop is borderline scam.

Thanks for the head's up. I don't agree.

Some links: https://www.reddit.com/r/ereader/s/ZpVE0dTM98 https://www.reddit.com/r/eink/s/LonNpgGAIF https://www.reddit.com/r/eink/s/YqUXfrZhnm https://www.reddit.com/r/eink/s/xmurkiHGam

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

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Hi yall, founder of Daylight here. Happy to answer any questions you have. Long time lurker, so this is pretty cool to finally take part :) I made this because I wanted the eye-strain free and minimalist qualities of my kindle/Eink applied to so much more of what I do on a computer. Lack of speed and ghosting felt like it made traditional Eink impossible to do most computing tasks. So we focused on making the most Pa…

If I may indulge in some silly OCD feedback: the hero animation with pages turning has the shadow on the top right line up with the corner, which makes it as if the device has an inset chamfered bezel, which I feel is of disservice to the device. That tripped me up hard until I looked at the other side where the shadow is hitting halfway.

Anyway, congratulations! I both hope you succeed and that it helps drag the 60Hz eink needle forward across the industry.

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

#527
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Hi yall, founder of Daylight here. Happy to answer any questions you have. Long time lurker, so this is pretty cool to finally take part :) I made this because I wanted the eye-strain free and minimalist qualities of my kindle/Eink applied to so much more of what I do on a computer. Lack of speed and ghosting felt like it made traditional Eink impossible to do most computing tasks. So we focused on making the most Pa…

Any chance of the A4 size device and higher DPI in the future? Will pay any money for that. A4 e-ink has considerable audience that doesn't know they need it – people who read papers. All the academia is formatted for A4 and stored in PDFs, which is pretty unreadable even on 10". People literally print them on paper to read. I currently enjoying A4-sized Boox Tab X and it's a game changer, as I read a lot of papers a…

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

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It’s reflective LCD (RLCD).

But with a backlight, which is novel I think?

Reflective LCD with backlight is called "transflective LCD" and they have been in use for years: https://newhavendisplay.com/blog/transmissive-vs-reflective-...

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

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Seems almost exactly what I was asking to a e-book reader: fast refresh, powerful enough and potentially open to run user apps and allow offline work; price is nice too. My only complaints are the use of Android, no 13" version that would be a godsend for technical books with graphs and diagrams, and the apparent lack of a headphones connector. Not sure about the latter as the web page is absolutely atrocious to navigate if one is after actual information instead of fancy graphics. I plan to continue to to wait for the PineNote to mature, because I will always sacrifice functionality to get more openness, but I'm glad something is happening also among the others. Its screen refresh speed is fantastic; I hope they will license the technology to others too, and possibly make panels alone available for sale. As a maker, I would welcome even a reduced speed (say 5-10 fps) version of the raw panel for sale at a decent cost for tinkering.

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

#530
post #85

Hi yall, founder of Daylight here. Happy to answer any questions you have. Long time lurker, so this is pretty cool to finally take part :) I made this because I wanted the eye-strain free and minimalist qualities of my kindle/Eink applied to so much more of what I do on a computer. Lack of speed and ghosting felt like it made traditional Eink impossible to do most computing tasks. So we focused on making the most Pa…

Any chance of the A4 size device and higher DPI in the future? Will pay any money for that. A4 e-ink has considerable audience that doesn't know they need it – people who read papers. All the academia is formatted for A4 and stored in PDFs, which is pretty unreadable even on 10". People literally print them on paper to read. I currently enjoying A4-sized Boox Tab X and it's a game changer, as I read a lot of papers a…

yes, academia should totally love this, but my experience is that they just all got used to reading papers on their laptops or tablets.

but I would totally love this. in fact, I have a remarkable tablet just for reading "papers" (ahem Dungeons & Dragons PDFs). but switching quickly between pages is tricky there...

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