[fn-mote]

> Maybe reMarkable or something like it could help bridge a student's writing with an LLM without having to fall back to a laptop or ipad

What does “bridge a student’s writing” mean?? If this is a real argument it needs to be clearer.

What’s the functional difference between a Remarkable and an iPad? The former is less responsive, costs less, and has better battery life, right? I really don’t see how that’s significant to any kind of development of anything.

Are you talking about running a local model??

[chasd00]

I feel like an eink b/w device will work better because of the display and lack of distractions like on a full blown iPad. Seems like sink would be similar to a sheet of paper but digital so it could be sent to an LLM or some Other API. Just my two cents though, I don’t have a super strong opinion about it.

[MikeTheGreat]

> costs less

I assumed that too, back when i thought that getting an e-ink pad would be cool.

Right now Amazon is quoting me $450 on a 10.3" reMarkable, but the price goes up for the 11.8" model and/or for bells and whistles. It looks like an 11" ipad is $450 and up (based on https://www.apple.com/ipad/compare/), although you need to buy the $80-100 iPencil separately.

So yeah - I was hoping that e-ink things would cost less, but they're still pretty expensive and certainly competitive with the iPad.

[gravypod]

I assume that the reMarkable here would mainly just be used to capture the writing. It could then be examined by an LLM asynchronously.