[1996]

No longer sold. Old CPU. Not enough ram.

Instead, get a Yogabook C930 with a dual display eInk + color, and touch + pen support on both screens. Great for notetaking in portrait mode: looks like a book, you write with the pen on the eink side while reading PDF or websites on the other side. Smaller than a macbook air or an ipad. Feels lighter too when held like a book in portrait mode.

Better: Fold over to use eink as the main display in mirror mode after updating the drivers. This suspend the color display to save battery. Ideal with a bluetooth or mechanical USBC keyboard: 2 USB-C ports for charging and connecting a peripheral at the same time.

Get the APAC model for 8GB Ram + multiband LTE.

Review and picture on https://little-beans.net/review/yogabook-c930/

Linux driver is WIP on https://github.com/aleksb/yogabook-c930-linux-eink-driver

[GekkePrutser]

A touch keyboard is a no-go for me, sadly. Especially for this kind of usecase.

[1996]

> A touch keyboard is a no-go for me, sadly. Especially for this kind of usecase

Get a USBC mechanical keyboard if that's your thing ; an amd64 tablet with a eink display and enough ports to connect a mechanical keyboard is quite unique.

If you plan to use it as a "laptop", you are missing 95% of the usecase: it's for taking notes with the wacom pen (55% of my use) and using the eink screen as the main screen with a physical keyboard (40% of my use).

The remaining 5% is using the touch keyboard to type a login when I can't be bothered to grab my laptop in the next room

[GekkePrutser]

Yeah that's not what I want it for :) I would really like a sunlight readable laptop. But I don't want to mess with a separate keyboard outside.

But hopefully some day something like this will come.

[totetsu]

I think there's one of these in the local bookoff..

[1996]

Give it a try. Highly underrated as a reading and notetaking device on top of being one of the rare laptop with eink screen that you can buy.

[hobo_mark]

Oh I see they also made one with a real keyboard as recently as last year (thinkbook plus), wonder if the eink can be drawn via software directly (instead of using it as a regular display and let the driver guess how to optimize draw calls).

[1996]

Check my link for github, IIRC I think it's the same USB driver so it should work too.