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I have two; a friend of mine had one. We both threw Debian on them and relished in the glorious Pixel Qi display and the nigh-indestructible nature of them. Gre
by dleslie 5y ago
I have two; a friend of mine had one. We both threw Debian on them and relished in the glorious Pixel Qi display and the nigh-indestructible nature of them. Great for backpacking and road trips in dirty areas, at a then-unbeatable price.
- b112 5y agoThese shipped? I've been looking for a laptop with eink for a decade, so I can use it in the sun. The new pine e-ink thing gives me hope, with a keyboard, but bah
- zozbot234 5y ago> The new pine e-ink thing gives me hope, with a keyboard, but bah Give it some time, they've just about gotten started on the low-level graphics support for that particular device. The next step is coming up with meaningful UX, probably no easy task given how different e-paper is from other sorts of visual output.
- dleslie 5y agoVolunteers were able to acquire them early on, then they had the give-1-get-1 programme, and now many are just sitting on Ebay. I bought both of mine for around 200 CAD.
- mavhc 5y agoIt's not e-ink, it's a transflexive LCD where you can remove the colour and turn off the backlight to get higher res, as the subpixels are setup like a camera (square of RG/GB) instead of the normal 3 vertical subpixels (RGB)