Is this currently my best option for reading black and white PDFs that are formatted for 8.5"x11" paper?
BOOX Max2? But it's $800.
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#62I have this device, and for hackers, this review misses some stuff: * the company behind it is based in norway, so you can be pretty sure the techies got treated well * they abide by the GPL very well * by connecting via USB and flicking a switch in the options menu, you get SSH access, as well as a REST endpoint where you can upload your files via curl. So if you don't like their cloud offering, you can turn of wifi…
Is the response time really that fast? On my e-reader, it takes solid 1 second in the best case (and sometimes more than 3s worst) to switch a page. This device looks really fast. But maybe it's just updating small region and that's why it's so fast?
The response time is optimized for writing, not reading. This device is better treated as a whiteboard than an ebook.
Switching pages can still take a few seconds (the display is lightning fast, but the processor for generating the page is not).
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#64its a near copy of boox max from https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/13-3-inch-large-e-ink...
probably boox who oem's it for them
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
People may prefer to buy it, for that reason.
That statement also struck me -- it's not like "techies" are normally treated unfavorably?
Parent asked about relevance. It's relevant if some people have worries about treatment of techies. Should people have these concerns? Dunno, but probably off-topic for this post :)
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#66its a near copy of boox max from https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/13-3-inch-large-e-ink... probably boox who oem's it for them
That's a 13.3" Android device, the Remarkable is a 10.3" non-android device.
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#67from 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.
Also it's kind of silly they didn't make that end (where an eraser usually is) function as an eraser.
That is the one thing that annoys the crap out of me, considering the stylus from my Toshiba Windows Tablet PC (what, thirteen/fourteen years ago?) had this functionality. I’ll ignore that I have to charge it all (Toshiba one didn’t) because of the tech differences, but I can’t grock a reason not to have an “eraser”.
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#68As a side-side note, and just for the record, in 1993 existed (I had one) the Compaq Concerto, using the Windows for Pen Computing (a spin-off of Windows 3.1):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq_Concerto
My model was a 486Sx 33 Mhz with a whopping 8 MB Ram (default was 4 MB)
I could have written more or less the same review at the time, nice (doing what at the time was more like "magic" or "science fiction" than anything else) it would have needed a more powerful processor, need (better) character recognition, sold for a VERY steep price [1], etc.
At least it needed not a stupid proprietary cloud, it was compatible with most if not all existing software, doubled as a "normal" laptop.
[1] The cost was if I recall correctly around 4,000,000 Italian Lire, roughly 2,000 Euros which at the time was like 3 months salary of a worker.
EDIT: Clear slip of the fingers, it was 8 MB and 4 MB, I wrote GB originally
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#69its a near copy of boox max from https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/13-3-inch-large-e-ink... probably boox who oem's it for them
You're kidding, right?