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Originally Posted by Waiting4somethin
my wait for a comfortable coding monitor continues
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I am afraid that EPD currently excluding colour already makes coding on it just a provisional solution.
Probably even Emacs users would agree.
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Originally Posted by Waiting4somethin
And there are so little in depth ereader reviews related to speed, it's all "fonts", "frontlight", naturally.
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I am also afraid that if for speed here "framerate" is meant, that is currently a constant.
A few of us had expressed vehemently the hope that products around the Max2 sported good CPUs - and it happened. Which makes those products better tablets, not fast displays. The CPU speed is not involved in the EPD speed.
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Originally Posted by Waiting4somethin
Given my Mimas has a similar cpu (to max2), I compared it to my Hisense a2 device, which seems to update its screen faster with its higher spec (and smaller screen). It's so much nicer to use, I'm not sure that I could get by on a larger version of the Mimas. It just has such a low frame rate to my perception that it's frustrating to use other than to read. Unlike my phone. It seems like the high resolution and large screen of these devices is too much for the CPU, which in terms of single core speed are quite slow? Certainly at least, the eink phones have a much better touch responsiveness. Ereaders are lagging behind in that respect.
Concerning touch responsiveness the Eewrite Epad seemed promising according to the goodrereader video review. In that case I imagine I would use it like an ipad, where typing with thumbs is quite comfortable. Sadly they have lowered the specs of the cpu to the same as Max 2. And who knows what will happen with a crowd funded device. On the other hand, dasung monitors are too expensive.
It is not only the issue of whether these devices reach their limit or not, but the Max2 "monitor mode" has, in addition, some kind of extra delay being that it runs through android.
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You somehow state that the display used in the Hisense a2 has higher framerates than other current EPD displays. For that, and for other claims above, numbers would be duly.
EDIT: what we saw in the past is that some devices seem to go closer to the A2 limit of 8fps, while those using big displays (e.g. the Max2) have probably a 15% reduced rate. For some reason.
Not that A2 would be a good idea in front of text, anyway.