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by JoshTriplett 2259 days ago
Since the demise of Pixel Qi, does anyone else have a credible laptop screen based on e-ink, that has a high enough refresh rate to be usable, and/or the ability to switch from transflective/zero-power e-ink mode to a normal screen?
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Waterfall 2259 days ago
https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/circuitbreaker/2020/1/...

There's going to be a big display revolution soon. Microled will probably outclass everything until we're at cheap retinal laser displays.

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tmerse 2259 days ago
My (meanwhile modest) hopes are with clearink [1]. Let's hope they don't go full mirasol.

1: https://youtu.be/zjJ2-cdhwMQ

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numpad0 2259 days ago
E Ink proper seems to require high voltage and current to refresh. It makes sense because power will be “amortized” but refreshing it often makes it just a high power high contrast device.

Other “e-ink” displays has way too low visual quality and markets don’t like that. Brighter backlight LCD and huge battery usually solves the same problem better. IOW/IMO if such technology is to hit the market it would need to be closely comparable to LCD.

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