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Originally Posted by DaleDe
Nor is the screen change going to be instantaneous as they claim.
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Maybe not, but maybe so. There are two issues with the "screen change"-- one is the refresh rate of the e-ink display. A new CPU won't change that. But the other issue is how long it takes to render a page to put it up on the screen. That can be sloooooow on current readers. On some PDFs-- especially graphic-heavy ones, it can take several seconds between pressing the page-change button and the reader changing the page. That can't be blamed on the display, that is the CPU. If they can make a faster, more optimized CPU (without vastly increasing battery drain and heat production) it is possible to make page changes "nearly instantaneous" in that factor.
(Okay, there is a third bottleneck in page changes-- the read speed for the flash memory-- but I doubt that it is a significant factor in blocks of memory as small as the page of a book.)