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Absolutely fantastic! I saw the post on Reddit and I immediately thought "WANT IT". Black and white in direct sunlight? And color in the shade, development dr

Absolutely fantastic! I saw the post on Reddit and I immediately thought "WANT IT". Black and white in direct sunlight? And color in the shade, development dream this thing. (At least for me that is) Shame the company behind it does not really exist anymore.

amiga-workbench 5y ago
The PixelQI IP was acquired by someone else, but I'm pretty sure they've just sat on it. I would kill for a 12.1" 1440x900 QI panel for my X201.
- voxadam 5y ago
  The Pixel Qi IP is apparently now owned by Tripuso Display Solutions.[1] [1] https://www.tripuso.com/ https://www.tripuso.com/
  - techdragon 5y ago
    Are they even in business? I mean that site looks like they don’t even want customers...
    - pcdoodle 5y ago
      Tried calling 6 months ago. Number is dead.
      - bogwog 5y ago
        Maybe someone in Georgia can drop in and do a wellness check
    - rbanffy 5y ago
      The best way to find that out is to build a transflective LCD screen. I'm pretty sure they'll be in business only if someone tries to make something.
- einpoklum 5y ago
  > I'm pretty sure they've just sat on it. Ah, the magic of intellectual property ownership, supposedly helping to promote technological progress. Is this US-registered IP?
me_me_me 5y ago
You don't want that! You want a thinner lighter laptop with tiny battery and shitty keyboard. Trust us on this, we are professionals.
- blagie 5y ago
  The problem is lack of standardization. My desktop is decked out the way I like. That's different from how you'd like. I'd obviously buy a high-quality high-res reflective display for my laptop. I wouldn't swap out the rest of my laptop for a random laptop with a high-quality high-res reflective display. But you can't just swap laptop components, except for sometimes SSD, RAM, and wifi card. If there were an industry-standard 13" and 15" laptop form factor with swapable components like a desktop, there would be a market for eInk displays and other oddballs. You could stick them in your HP, and Ivanka could stick it in her Lenovo. I'd buy a: * Keyboard with eraser dongle * Overbuild, rugged case (think ToughBook). I don't mind the weight. * Motherboard with two M.2 slots (for RAID), ECC memory, and lots of ports * High-res outdoor readable display * High-quality microphone and camera (I don't care about speakers) And stick it all together. I'd never buy a Toughbook as-is, since the display doesn't have enough resolution. I don't like a lot of the workstation/gaming style laptops either, mostly since they use a ton of power, which leads to fan noise, heat, and other annoyances. At the end of the day, without being able to customize, the thinner laptop with shitty keyboard seems to be what I want.
  - me_me_me 5y ago
    > At the end of the day, without being able to customize, the thinner laptop with shitty keyboard seems to be what I want. See, I told you :) You can have any laptop you'd like "so long as it is black".
- craftinator 5y ago
  I just spit toothpaste everywhere while reading your comment, thanks for that.

amiga-workbench 5y ago

The PixelQI IP was acquired by someone else, but I'm pretty sure they've just sat on it. I would kill for a 12.1" 1440x900 QI panel for my X201.

voxadam 5y ago
The Pixel Qi IP is apparently now owned by Tripuso Display Solutions.[1] [1] https://www.tripuso.com/ https://www.tripuso.com/
- techdragon 5y ago
  Are they even in business? I mean that site looks like they don’t even want customers...
  - pcdoodle 5y ago
    Tried calling 6 months ago. Number is dead.
    - bogwog 5y ago
      Maybe someone in Georgia can drop in and do a wellness check
  - rbanffy 5y ago
    The best way to find that out is to build a transflective LCD screen. I'm pretty sure they'll be in business only if someone tries to make something.
einpoklum 5y ago
> I'm pretty sure they've just sat on it. Ah, the magic of intellectual property ownership, supposedly helping to promote technological progress. Is this US-registered IP?

me_me_me 5y ago

You don't want that! You want a thinner lighter laptop with tiny battery and shitty keyboard. Trust us on this, we are professionals.

blagie 5y ago
The problem is lack of standardization. My desktop is decked out the way I like. That's different from how you'd like. I'd obviously buy a high-quality high-res reflective display for my laptop. I wouldn't swap out the rest of my laptop for a random laptop with a high-quality high-res reflective display. But you can't just swap laptop components, except for sometimes SSD, RAM, and wifi card. If there were an industry-standard 13" and 15" laptop form factor with swapable components like a desktop, there would be a market for eInk displays and other oddballs. You could stick them in your HP, and Ivanka could stick it in her Lenovo. I'd buy a: * Keyboard with eraser dongle * Overbuild, rugged case (think ToughBook). I don't mind the weight. * Motherboard with two M.2 slots (for RAID), ECC memory, and lots of ports * High-res outdoor readable display * High-quality microphone and camera (I don't care about speakers) And stick it all together. I'd never buy a Toughbook as-is, since the display doesn't have enough resolution. I don't like a lot of the workstation/gaming style laptops either, mostly since they use a ton of power, which leads to fan noise, heat, and other annoyances. At the end of the day, without being able to customize, the thinner laptop with shitty keyboard seems to be what I want.
- me_me_me 5y ago
  > At the end of the day, without being able to customize, the thinner laptop with shitty keyboard seems to be what I want. See, I told you :) You can have any laptop you'd like "so long as it is black".
craftinator 5y ago
I just spit toothpaste everywhere while reading your comment, thanks for that.