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Originally Posted by fishface
I personally am immensely skeptical that anyone would shell out US$800-$1000 for a huge notebook-sized e-ink appliance that is annoying to lug around and can't consume anything other than e-print media, UNLESS the user needs it for their day job, in which case the pen is essential. I mean, a "magazine reader", for serious? Are they going to market this just to rock stars, drug dealers and multinational CEOs?
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Very true--especially given the price of the iPad. I didn't notice that this was color e-ink at first glance, though it was LCD.
A 12-13" LCD tablet (or something new like PixelQI, Mirasol etc. down the road) is what's really needed IMO for technical users, academic users etc. as most aren't going to shell out for something that's ONLY a reader.
I'd stick with the printouts of PDFs I've been reading and marking up my whole career before buying a large screen e-ink device.
But give me a big screen tablet devices for $700 or less that I can read and mark things up with a stylus, but also use for other media consumption (movies etc.), net surfing, e-mail, etc. and I'd be all over it.