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Originally Posted by Nate the great
My original statement was that LCD screens can compete with Eink screens. All that anyone has shown in this thread is that an LCD screen would not suit _them_. No one other than Harry has presented a credible argument that LCDs are not a serious alternative to Eink.
BTW, what about the Ebw-1150? We have many many 1150 owners here. If LCD isn't competitive, then how do you explain them?
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Don't LCD screens
require refresh every 1/60th of a second (or a variation on that theme)? Or is that simply the rate the backlight (if it has one) flashes at? I'd never heard of a non-backlit LCD before this thread, so I'm not sure which it is.
That said...
E-Ink gives you a static screen that is not refreshing. It stays drawn until you turn the page like a book. Therefore it creates less fatigue on the eyes than (backlit) LCDs.
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Originally Posted by David Munch
I stand corrected. After actually reviewing what I belived to be my source, I turns out I was wrong. ~6% was the latest number I could find, and that was indeed based on browser count.
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On the Mac support... There are truly a HUGE number of PCs, and the Mac hovers around a 5% market share whenever the stats come out.
However, that includes business usage. The Mac is largely used in the home and by students (no, I don't have stats for that!
). This means that while it has a lower market share overall, more of the people using Macs are the type of users who would buy something like the Reader -- the home market.
IMHO, Sony tends to be self-supporting. They make Vaios, not Macs, so they are far more likely to support the Windows audience... hence the lack of Mac support.
-Pie