It seems Android tablet with a keyboard or Windows laptop with double screen exist but to live with the limitations of such a screen, nothing would top having full control of the OS interface.
The market might just not be big enough to warrant creating a product.
This is that product. A 60 Hz eink monitor, for $340.
Here's a clip of it playing video: https://youtu.be/povlk3hKTVA
https://www.mydeepguide.com/daf-tool
Be aware that Boox runs Android apps. Many other brands do not.
As soon as they make larger, better 60hz panels I will 100% switch all my monitors over. I think making videos look worse is a positive. We don't need doomscrolling. We don't need 60fps react buttons with smooth gradients. We don't need to HDR the entire web. I primarily use text based sites anyways, so eink is perfect for me.
But being serious, I personally have not seen a degraded e-ink display.
they seem pretty durable to me.
It is as crisp and clear as the day I got it.
Admittedly, I'm not trying to run video on it constantly and it doesn't get hot. But eInk seems remarkably durable.
Dasung 13k color is workable-ish even on MacOS with no tweaks.
https://shop.dasung.com/products/dasung-25-3-e-ink-monitor-p...
I bought it two years ago for over $1800, and I have to say, it was worth every single dollar.
I can read on it, work on it, (kind of) watch youtube videos on it, play (some) RTS game on it. And mine only had 33hz refresh rate, not the latest 60hz.
Are the dedicated eink monitors (like Dasung) better in this regard?
But an e-ink "terminal" would be nice, not an actual tty but something more like a tablet form factor that has a few buttons, little to no internal smarts and you can push images to it.
bee_rider•4h ago
When writing a lot of LaTeX I wished I had an eink monitor. LaTeX already takes a moment to compile. I’d probably want vim on a conventional monitor.