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I’d really like a Linux laptop with an e-ink screen. I’m well aware of the downsides. It seems Android tablet with a keyboard or Windows laptop with double screen exist but to live with the limitations of such a screen, nothing would top having full control of the OS interface.
I don't really want an e-ink "monitor" as that does not really play into the advantages of an e-ink display. By the time the e-ink display is uprated enough to act as a monitor It feels like a lot of the advantages of e-ink are lost and the display server does not really downrate enough to utilize e-ink's strength. But an e-ink "terminal" would be nice, not an actual tty but something more like a tablet form factor t…
Funnily you're describing https://usetrmnl.com/ which also happens to be pretty hacker friendly.
see our demo here: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qs7JeK11Cxc
I’d really like a Linux laptop with an e-ink screen. I’m well aware of the downsides. It seems Android tablet with a keyboard or Windows laptop with double screen exist but to live with the limitations of such a screen, nothing would top having full control of the OS interface.
we (TRMNL) have a working demo, debating what to do with it. unlisted: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qs7JeK11Cxc
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Ooh, crowdsupply looks interesting. This is my first time seeing it.
CrowdSupply is great - I ran a successful project through them. And I would definitely recommend anyone doing some hardware taking a look. There are a couple of things to be aware of - everything is shipped to the US and then distributed from there (using Mouser US). From the project point of view this means, depending on where things are manufactured) tariffs can come into play. The terms of shipping to mouser are d…
Presumably the contract doesn't allow you to sell product directly if you wanted too. The other thing I'm curious about is that CrowdSupply does continue to list "buying options" long after the creator has gone away. Which makes me wonder if they have some sort of rights to tooling etc post campaign?
I’d really like a Linux laptop with an e-ink screen. I’m well aware of the downsides. It seems Android tablet with a keyboard or Windows laptop with double screen exist but to live with the limitations of such a screen, nothing would top having full control of the OS interface.
Pretty cool, and you could use it as aregular display as well.
dunno how linux would react though.
So I spent a fair amount of time looking into e-ink options as a potential solution. I eventually settled on a refurbished Lenovo Thinkbook Plus G4, which has a flip-able screen with e-ink on one side. I paid around $800 which was less than a dedicated e-ink monitor, and only slightly more than some of the higher end large tablets/e-readers. So it was a hard deal to pass up.
I am happy to report that using the e-ink in the evenings has helped quite a bit on the sleep front. And while the laptop is pretty nice, e-ink in general requires a fair bit of compromise and the laptop in particular has some rough edges. You definitely need to spend some time on your display settings to make things work (high contrast, cursor and pointer visibility, font color in IDE and terminal apps, etc...), but for the most part I can make it work. And while I don't work in sunlight often, e-ink can really shine if you are outdoors (I have the sun shining on my screen right now as I type this and it is super readable.)
Anyways, I guess what I am trying to say is that I really hope more investment gets put into e-ink. I think it is a pretty awesome technology and would love to expand my usage of it. But at least for now it is mostly something that I am tolerating for the sake of sleep.
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from 6.7 to 42 would be my guess. But being serious, I personally have not seen a degraded e-ink display.
Even in a lot of direct sunlight or leaving it out in the heat?
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incredible, isn't it, that no single usable e-paper device is being sold. like no Mac with e-ink, no Surface with e-ink, no ASUS with e-ink, even though this is the best thing an operator can do to his tired eyes.
I think PineNote qualifies by now? https://pine64.org/devices/pinenote/ Also https://usetrmnl.com/
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I'd wager that the whole modus operandi for desktop environments is not made with e-ink in mind. E-ink fits in a situation where only a few updates are ever required, and completely breaks down for anything requiring higher framerates. The market might just not be big enough to warrant creating a product.
> the whole modus operandi for desktop environments is not made with e-ink in mind It used-to be in the DOS and terminal days, and it wouldn't take much to get us back there. Shut off all the eye-candy transition effects. Make your web browser, PDF viewer, etc., always scroll a full page at a time, instead of scrolling 1mm when you click on the button or use the mouse wheel. Just those few changes and you'll have som…