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Originally Posted by rkomar
Yes. How often do you update the screen when reading? How often when typing? How much more power goes into the communication for the monitor (USB, BlueTooth, WiFi,... plus VNC processing)? Dedicated ereaders use a burst of energy when the page changes and then more or less sleep until the next page turn. Monitors don't really get to sleep when you're using them.
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Of course, it is intended some reasonable use. Watch a movie or edit text, it is not the same amount of refresh. Noone says that you are excused from using the tool properly: for example, a text editor customized for EPD should have a static cursor, not a blinking one; to the effect of hiding the cursor, I used a small app which I called through a keyboard shortcut after finishing a paragraph.
I would say that the consumption would be akin to what I experienced: six hours of comparatively intensive use (I do not have a comparison of the capacities of the models I used, but).
For what creates concern, I would raise more the topic of ageing the battery with costant recharge/s.