Compared to other e-ink devices, yes.
Compared to LCD, oled or what have you, my understanding is that it uses significantly less.
Compared to LCD, oled or what have you, my understanding is that it uses significantly less.
See the microwatts of power that Sharps MemoryLCD displays have. They often beat comparable EInk screens in power draw.
The parts of the screen that doesn't update, courtesy of being e-ink, don't use any power at all. LCD will use power if you're looking at a static image, eink won't. And a lot of the time, 95% of the screen is a static image and only 5 percent actually updates. One of Modos' biggest innovations is successfully taking advantage of that.
That's unfortunate.
I'm imagining a fast scrolling game with complex backgrounds where most of the pixels are changing values every frame, I assume it completely breaks down in that case.
Or that's how I understand it anyway.
I saw that Alex Soto himself is in this comment thread, he'll know a lot more than me, I'm just spreading what little knowledge I've gathered from his blog posts and some of the discussions in the modos mastodon server.
I've probably misunderstood a lot of that too, I'm not a hardware engineer, just a lowly java dev with a strong but hobby level interest in eink.
Modos is my dream laptop, but it's currently unclear when that'll become reality.
Again, Alex Soto will know more.