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Originally Posted by 2new
Can anyone tell my of onyx HDMI is faster? It's hard to tell from some videos.
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It's hard to tell how fast is your ereader from watching a video of a video playing on your ereader, all I know is that I would not waste any minute to watch a movie on the device
Apart from joking, I believe HDMI in A2 mode is way faster. However I don't use it for coding (and I don't see a point to use it for video). The A2 mode is quite fast but the fonts are not that crisp as they are when rendered natively by the reader. Furthermore the text is never black, and the screen background quickly become creamy gray with ghosting. Even in A2 mode refresh is too slow for working comfortably with a mouse. Sure, muscle memory tend to do the correct movement but you have to wait for the final visual confirmation, and always do a correction slowly as there's always some overshoot or undershoot with your aiming. It's ok to target large buttons with a mouse but not to do text manipulation or complex menu navigation.
If you really want to use it as a monitor, check the monitor thread for the modified monitor apk. It lets you do a screen refresh by a tap which is a must have. If I remember correctly Dasung has a physical button for refresh.
In my opinion, I could recommend it for work only as a standalone device, running native terminal app which in turn can do ssh to your workstation. Forget about GUI terminals (VNC, RDP, etc.) and mouse workflow. Of course the device could be quite useful as an ancillary monitor to display mostly static documentation, when you work on tutorials, etc. but it means that the static content perhaps can be side-loaded to the reader or accessed via the built in browser which gives you much better experience.
The HDMI is a marketing gimmick. People put a lot of hopes to make use of it but I seriously doubt there's a wide adoption amongst the owners. A nice passive display is not there yet, certainly it is not this device.