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No. But a lightweight (<1kg) passively cooled laptop with a great keyboard, an excellent e-ink screen with at least FullHD resolution, good battery life, and f

No. But a lightweight (<1kg) passively cooled laptop with a great keyboard, an excellent e-ink screen with at least FullHD resolution, good battery life, and fully open source software and firmware would. Any arch (MIPS, ARM, SH4, whatever) is fine with me.

DanBC 12y ago
Recently I've read a bunch of people who want eink screens. I'm a bit confused: the refresh rate is terrible for eink. Typing text would be painful. Maybe the year 2020 will have great quality fast eink but today it'd be a pretty lousy experience.
- osivertsson 12y ago
  Somebody has to be the first to try it and spend som R&D on trying to get it to work. During the last summers I've been reading and commenting at HN and other forums at the beach with the lousy browser on my ultra-slow Sony PRS-T1 e-book reader. It's a pretty terrible experince, agreed. Scrolling and waiting for eink refresh every now and then, text input is laggy. Still I do it since it is so easy to read in sunlight! I'm sure with a faster CPU to render webpages quicker and some engineering ingenuity to perhaps allow quicker refreshes but lower contrast it could become a real product for early adopters. I'd be willing to pay $500 for something that is just a step above the current terrible level, and if it works great and is hackable maybe $1000.
  - cdjk 12y ago
    I'm disappointed the Pixel Qi screens haven't become more popular. Sol Computer (http://www.solcomputer.com/ http://www.solcomputer.com/) makes a few devices with them, but they're overpriced and underpowered from what I can tell. Otherwise their sunlight performance would be great.
- walterbell 12y ago
  Touch-typists don't need to look at the screen while typing. More clock time is spent reading than typing. E-ink is much less stressful on eyes.
  - DanBC 12y ago
    Touch typists don't need to look at the keys while typimg. While it's possible for people to type without looking at the screen most people find it really difficult to do so. I'd love an e-ink screen. But I remember how horrible it was to use the Kindle browser.
    - walterbell 12y ago
      Those who prioritize an e-ink screen will design ways to improve typist feedback, just as those who prioritized touchscreens developed ways to improve the typing experience. The closed, limited function, version one, $1000 Sony DPT-S1 is selling briskly even with EU importer markups, with one of the top feature requests being an external keyboard.

DanBC 12y ago

Recently I've read a bunch of people who want eink screens. I'm a bit confused: the refresh rate is terrible for eink. Typing text would be painful. Maybe the year 2020 will have great quality fast eink but today it'd be a pretty lousy experience.

osivertsson 12y ago
Somebody has to be the first to try it and spend som R&D on trying to get it to work. During the last summers I've been reading and commenting at HN and other forums at the beach with the lousy browser on my ultra-slow Sony PRS-T1 e-book reader. It's a pretty terrible experince, agreed. Scrolling and waiting for eink refresh every now and then, text input is laggy. Still I do it since it is so easy to read in sunlight! I'm sure with a faster CPU to render webpages quicker and some engineering ingenuity to perhaps allow quicker refreshes but lower contrast it could become a real product for early adopters. I'd be willing to pay $500 for something that is just a step above the current terrible level, and if it works great and is hackable maybe $1000.
- cdjk 12y ago
  I'm disappointed the Pixel Qi screens haven't become more popular. Sol Computer (http://www.solcomputer.com/ http://www.solcomputer.com/) makes a few devices with them, but they're overpriced and underpowered from what I can tell. Otherwise their sunlight performance would be great.
walterbell 12y ago
Touch-typists don't need to look at the screen while typing. More clock time is spent reading than typing. E-ink is much less stressful on eyes.
- DanBC 12y ago
  Touch typists don't need to look at the keys while typimg. While it's possible for people to type without looking at the screen most people find it really difficult to do so. I'd love an e-ink screen. But I remember how horrible it was to use the Kindle browser.
  - walterbell 12y ago
    Those who prioritize an e-ink screen will design ways to improve typist feedback, just as those who prioritized touchscreens developed ways to improve the typing experience. The closed, limited function, version one, $1000 Sony DPT-S1 is selling briskly even with EU importer markups, with one of the top feature requests being an external keyboard.