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You are getting lost in implementation details when interpreting my statement. If you insist on being excruciatingly precise, then what I have been wanting for

You are getting lost in implementation details when interpreting my statement. If you insist on being excruciatingly precise, then what I have been wanting for multiple years is a Mac that has a display that works via reflection, rather than emission. I do not care in the slightest whether it is by moving around electrically-charged bits of ink, flipping around tiny little tiles, shivering the atoms of the screen into a new configuration that reflects the desired wavelengths, by broadcasting a magical sigil into my brain that makes me think I'm seeing an image when I'm actually seeing a piece of bare wood with a spell carved into it, or any other implementation details. I merely care that it is working with the sunlight instead of fighting it. And I am sad that the R&D funding for reflective display technologies seems to have largely dried up, leaving only a slow series of underwhelming announcements of new displays from E Ink Holdings, Incorporated. Whose name is sufficiently generic that it would probably be at risk of becoming a generic name for any reflective display technology even if they weren't the only people making any attempt to push it forwards. This is what "I have been wanting a color e-ink Mac I can work with under direct sunlight for so long now. I will be waiting many years longer." is intended to unpack to.

mdp2021 5y ago
> what I have been wanting for multiple years Right. Very many of us have been wanting that, you know. And we are all very «sad that the R&D funding for reflective display technologies seems to have largely dried up». Last time, when CLEARink vanished. So, again: practically, for your work outdoors, if it involves graphics, * you may have a chance within some months to combine your Mac with a VNC connected large enough Kaleido or ACeP based tablet, and bear with the compromises each involves, or * bring around some batteries, but if your Mac is OLED based that will make little sense, unless * you bring around an effective shader (umbrella, shield, pizza delivery box etc.) - many of us do. This was the suggestion.

mdp2021 5y ago

> what I have been wanting for multiple years Right. Very many of us have been wanting that, you know. And we are all very «sad that the R&D funding for reflective display technologies seems to have largely dried up». Last time, when CLEARink vanished. So, again: practically, for your work outdoors, if it involves graphics, * you may have a chance within some months to combine your Mac with a VNC connected large enough Kaleido or ACeP based tablet, and bear with the compromises each involves, or * bring around some batteries, but if your Mac is OLED based that will make little sense, unless * you bring around an effective shader (umbrella, shield, pizza delivery box etc.) - many of us do. This was the suggestion.