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Old 05-20-2008, 04:24 PM   #24
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Does the refresh speed of an eInk screen depend on the CPU speed? I'd have thought that it was primarily dependent upon the physical characteristics of the device - the time taken for all the little capsules to move, or rotate, or whatever it is that they do.
This has nothing to do with the screen refresh. It has to do with the amount of time it takes to read the data from the file system, sort it or organize it into by author or alphabetically or by collection. All that work is done by the CPU. Once it is done, it is displayed on the screen.

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