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Man I want this to be real so bad. I love e-ink and if I can have a monitor JUST for VSCode/programming, I'm sold.

The guy scrolling CNN vertically looks like a scam, but the lady sitting reading CNN horizontally looks much more real. There's some ghosting in the lady's scroll as one would expect. Guessing like 20 Hz?

Def want to see a longer, "real" video across a wider range of stuff.

I'm highly skeptical this will produce, so I'll wait after kickstarter for this for sure.

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Bigme has been a player in the niche eink tablet market for a while now, so it's likely real, or at least not a complete scam. The fake marketing videos in the Kickstarter are atrocious, though. I would say Dasung and Onyx Mira are the popular brands for eink monitors. If you only want greyscale, those two have decent options available today. It seems like this larger color eink panel just became available, which is why you see both Dasung and Bigme building products around it now.

Makes sense about the color displays just coming onto market.

that's traditionally what's kept me from exploring for coding. lack of colors is a nightmare in code reading.

For me, I find color distracting. I prefer shades of the same color and typography for code highlighting.

I still remember Apple’s Pascal on early Macs with monochrome screens and it did wonders with 1 bit per pixel.

Can you share a config or at least an example for your code highlighting setups? I've always relied on colors because I can't imagine a typography-based highlighter that doesn't use (the atrocious to me in monospace code) italics.

Sure. I’ll find a couple examples I have.

ping?

Why is vertical monitor a scam? i'm reading this now on 27inch apple studio oriented vertically. It's really good as code editor screen

They're talking about an e-ink being capable of that level of performance. You'd expect ghosting and noticable artifacts on the screen. E-ink is super slow.

They mean that the frame rate/responsiveness of that particular video shot is faked.

other sibling comments got it, the video/gif of the vertically orientation looks like it's photoshopped/video edited; faked.

there's no scroll lag between devices, nor image ghosting.

personally I think it's because it feels like that both the screen and the Iphone screens are edited on. Also, it feels like the finger flick scroll is too instant, I believe flick scrolling in Safari does not stop instantly but slowly slows down until it stops (unless it can be disabled). I could totally be wrong though.

It is 12 Hz, not 20 Hz.

it's not a scam. the tradeoff is bad ghosting.

I don't see any bad ghosting in the video/animation in article/kickstarter. It is a scam since it is something they can't deliver yet collecting money for.

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