Interesting, the 13.3" version could be particularly useful for me.<p>Shame the company's attitude to the GPL (essentially ignoring it, and claiming "unfair anti-China sentiment" & closing off forums when people call them out on that) precludes me from considering any of their products currently.
Was trying to find actual info on frame rate and couldn’t locate any, but I did find this demo video that makes it look to be in the 5-10 FPS range - <a href="https://youtu.be/WT031cs-tjo" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/WT031cs-tjo</a><p>So probably good enough for reading/coding/browsing static sites, but scrolling will feel laggy and videos/animations will be a hard watch.<p>Still a pretty significant improvement over the eInk displays you get in Kindles which can take 500ms+ to refresh.
I refuse to buy from a company that refuses to respect their customers' rights to modify their software. Remarkable are better in this regard but not by much, but at least they don't blatantly ignore copyright.<p>The Linux foundation should seek an import injunction.
I wonder what the real experience of writing documents and typing code would be on this. Is the latency acceptable to not feel "detached"? Regardless, I am exciting because honestly my eyes are killing me staring at three or four monitors all day long.
The eink space is seeing a lot of new products lately and I’m super optimistic about the future.<p>I would sell my left kidney for a high res 60hz full color eink monitor.
Ah! They are moving into different markets outside ereaders, so then please make my dream happen[0].<p>They are not far removed for what I want (I use my Boox with keyboard as monitor for smaller devices connected via wifi already); faster ARM proc, more mem, more storage + sd card. Bonus points for LTE. But the biggest thing; normal OS; Linux or Windows. Then I would be done.<p>[0] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27513791" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27513791</a>
No mention of the elephant in the room: refresh rate. E-ink displays typically have incredibly low (full) refresh rate, which coincidentally is fine for reading. However for a desktop which may involve a lot of moving elements this seems like a major limitation.
That looks like an interesting product. One spec that I don't see in the article is the number of colors that the display supports. IIRC, that's still very low for eink displays. ie, only 256 colors.
> There are a myriad of operating systems it supports, such as Windows 10, MAC OS, Android, Linux.<p>For a site all about reading, mistaking myriad as a synonym for 'number' rather than 'many' is disappointing. Counting (GNU)/Linux twice doesn't help.<p>25" diagonal with 3200×1800 would be <i>perfect</i> for most of my passive reading activities, and the frame rate would have to be <i>dismal</i> for me to be disappointed. The price quoted ($1500 -- I assume USD) is stupidly steep though. As a commenter on the announcement observed, 8999 yen ~= AUD $110 ... which is stupidly cheap, if that's real.<p>EDIT - thank you to the three people, each 1m apart, that corrected my mistake (still present above) about pricing.