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No longer sold. Old CPU. Not enough ram. Instead, get a Yogabook C930 with a dual display eInk + color, and touch + pen support on both screens. Great for note
by 1996 5y ago
No longer sold. Old CPU. Not enough ram.
Instead, get a Yogabook C930 with a dual display eInk + color, and touch + pen support on both screens. Great for notetaking in portrait mode: looks like a book, you write with the pen on the eink side while reading PDF or websites on the other side. Smaller than a macbook air or an ipad. Feels lighter too when held like a book in portrait mode.
Better: Fold over to use eink as the main display in mirror mode after updating the drivers. This suspend the color display to save battery. Ideal with a bluetooth or mechanical USBC keyboard: 2 USB-C ports for charging and connecting a peripheral at the same time.
Get the APAC model for 8GB Ram + multiband LTE.
Review and picture on https://little-beans.net/review/yogabook-c930/ https://little-beans.net/review/yogabook-c930/
Linux driver is WIP on https://github.com/aleksb/yogabook-c930-linux-eink-driver https://github.com/aleksb/yogabook-c930-linux-eink-driver
- totetsu 5y agoI think there's one of these in the local bookoff..
- 1996 5y agoGive it a try. Highly underrated as a reading and notetaking device on top of being one of the rare laptop with eink screen that you can buy.
- hobo_mark 5y agoOh I see they also made one with a real keyboard as recently as last year (thinkbook plus), wonder if the eink can be drawn via software directly (instead of using it as a regular display and let the driver guess how to optimize draw calls).
- 1996 5y agoCheck my link for github, IIRC I think it's the same USB driver so it should work too.
- GekkePrutser 5y agoA touch keyboard is a no-go for me, sadly. Especially for this kind of usecase.
- 1996 5y ago> A touch keyboard is a no-go for me, sadly. Especially for this kind of usecase Get a USBC mechanical keyboard if that's your thing ; an amd64 tablet with a eink display and enough ports to connect a mechanical keyboard is quite unique. If you plan to use it as a "laptop", you are missing 95% of the usecase: it's for taking notes with the wacom pen (55% of my use) and using the eink screen as the main screen with a physical keyboard (40% of my use). The remaining 5% is using the touch keyboard to type a login when I can't be bothered to grab my laptop in the next room
- GekkePrutser 5y agoYeah that's not what I want it for :) I would really like a sunlight readable laptop. But I don't want to mess with a separate keyboard outside. But hopefully some day something like this will come.