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I love the idea of an e-ink computer, used to own and love a Psion Series 3 [1], and would like to think that I'd buy this sort of thing, but to be honest in the end probably wouldn't. The MacBook Air is just too good as an all-round machine to make me want to carry a second thing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Series_3

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Still have my Psion 5. The keyboard was so much better than so many keyboards today. Sadly it was to slow for Internet. Also no good way to connect. With IR to the cellphone, it was slow even just to send an email.

The spirit of the Psion 5 / Series 3 lives on in the Gemini PDA

https://store.planetcom.co.uk/collections/gemini-pda

and the Astro Slide

https://store.planetcom.co.uk/products/astro-slide

In the early 00s we were using a Psion Series 5 as a travel blogging machine. We even had a publishing pipeline where you could FTP upload Psion Word documents to a server, from where it’d be converted automatically to HTML and published on the site.

This was a great setup, with the compactness, battery life, and lovely keyboard of the Psion.

My eyes are easily irritated by looking at a monitor / screen, and one of the fixes I tried was e-ink. This was a few years ago, I got a large tablet running android. I found that it refreshed too slowly and e.g. scrolling was no good on it. This was just a cheap one I found on amazon. Are there e-ink tablets or monitors that work as well as a regular screen in terms of refresh speed?

I use Dasung's newest models and, while I won't game on them, I got used to watching videos on it very quickly. There's no consistent stutter as with other models I've owned previously.

I totally get it. I really miss the heyday of the PDA and small handheld PCs (like the HP Jornadas).

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