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I love love love eink. I have used eink daily since about 2007 (first gen kindle... who's design I still adore. Talk about punk looking lol). I then switched t
by helf 3y ago
I love love love eink. I have used eink daily since about 2007 (first gen kindle... who's design I still adore. Talk about punk looking lol).
I then switched to an Entourage eDGe briefly (too big) and then to an Entourage eDGe Pocket in ~2011. I still have it and use it (battery amazingly holds all day charge under use).
Just got a Boox Tab Ultra C and I am in heaven. The CFA layer over the eink goves really nice muted colors that remind me of 1960s news print and it is so easy on the eyes. The screen refresh speeds are amazing (I actually watch videos using PiP floating (smaller windows refresh better) while doing other things. The Android 11 install is heavily optimized and runs beautifully. If I use it for just tectual data in airplane mode I easy get nearly a month per charge.
My dream is a laptop that is 300+ DPI eink @ 13-15" with maybe a clear oled overlay for when you need color. It would be so nice. Or even a laptop with a rotate screen like the old panasonic toughbooks or fujitsu lifebooks that has a 180 hinge.
Oled or IPS hiDPI on one side and highres eink on the other.
Would be phenomenal. As soon as I have the spare cash I am going to get one of the desktop eink monitors! I am so excited they are finally becoming a thing.
I used to run a greyscale NeXT Turbo for years. Was only 68hz but it was a proper monochrome CRT and was easy on my eyes. For whatever reason, color CRTs hurt my eyes unless they are ~85hz or higher.
Anyways, enough ranting. Suffice to say eink is a dream for people like me and I can only hope it contonues getting better <3