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Originally Posted by omro
Well I made the attempt and the screen did indeed crack. I've now lost the bottom left hand corner an inch up to and inch and a half across. I doubt they'll even bother to repair it now even if I pay them. [...]
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Sounds oddly familiar
I'm sure they
will repair it if you pay them, its not really worth it IMHO.
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Originally Posted by omro
[...] I can't say I will entirely miss it. It was an overpriced unit that promised much and delivered very little in relation to what I expected/hoped. I could easily have bought a netbook with the money I spent on it.
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The DR is certainly overpriced, but it did do many things well (displaying PDFs, comics, note taking), and I do miss it. I would call it a good deal if only it cost a third of what it does.
Rather than repair mine, I decided to drop $250 on a used TC1100 10'' A4 tablet (with detachable keyboard and Wacom), there are plenty on eBay. It does everything my DR did and a whole lot more (color display, for instance), but its relatively heavy (3 lbs, I remove the battery and use AC power while reading to make it lighter) and isn't eInk. Its not really fair to compare the DR to a netbook if those last 2 factors are critical to you.