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Old 02-13-2008, 02:51 PM   #7
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Is anyone else impressed with how fast the screen refreshes? Maybe it's because I haven't seen a Vizplex screen in person, but that seems really quick.
Huh? It takes more than 2000 ms after the key press before it shows the next screen. That's completely unacceptable IMO. It feels like after pressing the key you have time to go and boil an egg before the next screen is displayed. It's like some kHz range computer from the 1960s. Yet I bet they have a 100+ MHz CPU and a dedicated display controller with DMA. I just don't understand how they manage to make it so incredibly slow.

And why oh why don't they include a small light in those devices with non-illuminating displays? People obviously want that, and it'd be really easy and cheap to add it. Just a small flip-up thingy. And it'd be so immensely useful in many situations. Seems like a no-brainer.
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