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Originally Posted by bazz2004
Well endemion06463 you are a lot easier pleased than me. The iPad is my idea of a high performance tablet and the PC is an effective multipurpose device. E-readers remain pretty much e-readers whatever the brand name. They struggle to run anything more recent than android 8.1 and even then perform at a snail's pace. I doubt we'll see any updates to more recent versions of android from Boyue. Common sense and experience tells me that reading for extensive periods is easier on the eyes with an e-reader than with an lcd screen.
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I don't think my "pleasure" is relevant here. I guess you're referring to things that aren't suited for an e-ink screen and therefore you have a hard time calling a device with such a screen anything but an e-reader? You may have a point there but looking at it from another perspective, you could also say that if you can do more than use it for reading "it's a tablet" or at least it's elevated beyond an e-reader. Guess you'll have to decide for yourself. I'm sticking with whether the device is geared towards reading or not instead of a specific kind of screen.
(crApple is notorious for (relatively) low spec, high price products, not my idea of high end/high performance)
Not sure why you're hung up on the android version. It follows for a large part the same idiotic version increase scheme as chrome. You know where they hand out entire new version numbers to minor updates (apps written for 5.0 are still compatible). Also an OS should not tax the system it's running on to much. So you can easily consider an OS that needs better hardware specs than it's predecessor a failure.
Whether performance runs "at a snail's pace" depends on a multitude of things. It's pretty hard to tell with e-ink to begin with. Even an high end tablet would still seem slow if it were using an e-ink screen. Those screens are just slow. If you hooked up an lcd screen to the mars it would (likely) perform similar to a regular tablet it has sufficient specs for that (even more so for it's successor).
In what way does "common sense" play a part on it being easier on the eyes? Especially after I've shown you a study that tells us otherwise?
How much of your experience in this regard is due to the nocebo effect? That's rhetorical as you can't really tell such things as an individual.