It started with notebooks, but that wasn’t the master plan.

  • tal@lemmy.today
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    2 months ago

    I don’t know if it will work for your use case, but you can attach an external eInk display to any laptop or desktop.

    Stuff like:

    https://www.amazon.com/Acogedor-10-3inch-Monitor-1872x1404p-Mountable/dp/B0BYDB8HTK

    Or

    https://www.amazon.com/DASUNG-Paper-Front-Light-Touch-Monitor/dp/B09VLDK58C

    I don’t know how well eInk would work for most tasks, though. I mean, sure, it’s great for reading documents, and you can do so outside on a sunny day. But most PC software isn’t designed to work well with a slow refresh rate.

    The battery life savings on an e-reader with an eInk display compared to an LED or LCD screen can be very large, but then the software is designed for it.

    If I were only gonna read documents, I think I’d lean towards just loading them onto an eInk e-reader. That just takes, what, a fraction of a minute? Then all the software is designed around the screen’s characteristics.