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Having looked at e-ink in the market, I would strongly suggest an alternative display technology like RLCD or transflective LCD.

But I would absolutely pay for something ultra portable but with a good typing experience, without those silly dogmas of clam shell designs and 'make it as thin as possible' obsession.

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Transflective is awesome if you need it. They are expensive though. I have a 7" Lowrance fish finder bought in 2020, and the display works really well in bright sunlight and pitch darkness. The resolution is pretty low, like 720p, but I don't have the most expensive model.

I think you're mixing the cost of your purchase with the cost of transflective display tech itself.

The famous 100$ laptops (OLPC XO) had a very high end transflective display from Pixel Qi (now defunct).

The tech itself is not expensive it just seems it cannot compete with the marketing of colorful glossy display, even when those glossy displays are impossible to use in the sun.

Are there any transflective displays on the market in the range of 8-15 inches (20-38cm) diagonal?

the best/largest production transflective display i've seen was in asus eee note, which sadly wasn't directly sold in the west.

https://www.laptopmag.com/uk/articles/asus-eee-note-ea800-no...

8", 1024x768, 64 grayscale levels, wacom digitiser, sadly no backlight.

the thing runs linux and is trivially easy to run custom code on. i still have a few units.

I am curious as well, I've been searching all morning and can't find anything

yeah transreflective LCD is amazing, extremely low consumption but still LCD, better than eink, I have one in watch I wear and there is pretty much nothing to upgrade to

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