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davester · 10-26-2020, 03:21 PM

I do not have the Poke 2 Color ... but I doubt you would want to use it as a remote access device for the following reasons:

1) The COLOR pixel-resolution of the Poke 2 Color is different than the Black-and-White pixel-resolution. Although the B/W pixel-resolution is an impressive 300DPI ... the color pixel-resolution is only 100 DPI!
https://onyxboox.com/boox_poke2color
This means that the device’s stated 1072×1448 pixel-resolution is only for B/W ... and the color resolution would be 1/3 of that: ~357x482, which is too low-res to be used as a remote desktop.

2) The Poke 2 Color screen size is 6”. Many years ago, I would use my 9.7” Kindle-DX (1200x824 pixel-resolution) as a secondary monitor for my Windows-8 1024x768 resolution desktop ... where I had a very hard time seeing text/menus from the Windows desktop, as the font size was too small on the Kindle DX. Finding the mouse/cursor on screen was often a time-consuming and eye-straining challenge.

10-26-2020, 03:21 PM	#2
davester Member Posts: 22 Karma: 1000002 Join Date: May 2014 Location: Los Angeles Device: Kindle DX, Yotaphone 2, iPhone7+, Dasung 13.3" HD-FT Monitor, iPad Pro	I do not have the Poke 2 Color ... but I doubt you would want to use it as a remote access device for the following reasons: 1) The COLOR pixel-resolution of the Poke 2 Color is different than the Black-and-White pixel-resolution. Although the B/W pixel-resolution is an impressive 300DPI ... the color pixel-resolution is only 100 DPI! https://onyxboox.com/boox_poke2color This means that the device’s stated 1072×1448 pixel-resolution is only for B/W ... and the color resolution would be 1/3 of that: ~357x482, which is too low-res to be used as a remote desktop. 2) The Poke 2 Color screen size is 6”. Many years ago, I would use my 9.7” Kindle-DX (1200x824 pixel-resolution) as a secondary monitor for my Windows-8 1024x768 resolution desktop ... where I had a very hard time seeing text/menus from the Windows desktop, as the font size was too small on the Kindle DX. Finding the mouse/cursor on screen was often a time-consuming and eye-straining challenge.