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faster
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That's debatable. My Kindle DX renders PDF and MOBI page flips at twice the speed of my M96. I can post a video for the doubters.
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much better
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I don't see any hardware difference. The Kindle renders detail on images better, but there's striated noise in the background. The M96 dithers hard, producing crisper but less-nuanced views.
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higher-resolution screen
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1000x824 vs 1000x825. You're absolutely right, it is higher-resolution.
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and far better software
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Extremely debatable. The Kindle is memory-restricted and struggles to be anything more than an e-paper reader. The M96, through inexplicable choices on Onyx's part, can barely claim to be an Android tablet. (Baked-in custom version of Google Play Services that can't be replaced, limiting me from installing many applications? Why? And also why is the "house" button a menu button? Got a volume discount on house buttons or something?)
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and performance.
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Overall, true. More RAM certainly helps.
The M96's build quality is crap, the software is crap, the performance is unspectacular, and the stupid (and expensive-to-replace) stylus that the so-called-touchscreen requires - which Onyx didn't even have the foresight to provide the capability to dock inside the unit - is the nail in its coffin for me. Eff this expensive piece of junk.
I think, given a do-over, I wouldn't have bought either of them. My iPad remains my favourite reading device. The Kindle app on iOS will display externally-sourced files including PDFs (unlike on pretty much any other platform) and the rendering performance of the iPad blows everything else out of the water. You can use it in the dark, too.