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Old 01-27-2010, 10:21 PM   #217
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Originally Posted by Shaggy View Post
It's a never ending cycle though. If you wait until this generation settles down... guess what... the next generation is right around the corner, so you might as well wait until that one settles down. rinse. repeat.
I'm more concerned with the current high prices than anything else. The available readers are rather expensive given the rather old technology within them (barebone OS, low resolution e-paper displays, weak hardware, low storage). Seeing the shiny new ipad come at a shockingly okay price (it's cheaper than an unsubsidized iphone), I think prices can come down much more.

Imagine swapping the display of the ipad with e-ink... that 1GHz cpu and likely 512MB-1GB of ram will tear through the most complex vector-filled PDFs that would stall the current crop of 400MHz freescale 64-128MB e-ink readers.
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