Maybe reMarkable or something like it could help bridge a student's writing with an LLM without having to fall back to a laptop or ipad.
remarkable keeps inking data on a per-page basis in vector format, so there's a bit of work to be done to render the inking and then visually assessing it, but it's all pretty much "done" work.
Remarkable's cloud syncing tech is .. not great, and I'd speculate you'd get a better setup here with some sort of harness where you talk / text with an agent that has access to all the files, dates, OCRs, etc first before you consider trying to generate PDFs / pages and put them back onto the tablet.
What does “bridge a student’s writing” mean?? If this is a real argument it needs to be clearer.
What’s the functional difference between a Remarkable and an iPad? The former is less responsive, costs less, and has better battery life, right? I really don’t see how that’s significant to any kind of development of anything.
Are you talking about running a local model??
I assumed that too, back when i thought that getting an e-ink pad would be cool.
Right now Amazon is quoting me $450 on a 10.3" reMarkable, but the price goes up for the 11.8" model and/or for bells and whistles. It looks like an 11" ipad is $450 and up (based on https://www.apple.com/ipad/compare/), although you need to buy the $80-100 iPencil separately.
So yeah - I was hoping that e-ink things would cost less, but they're still pretty expensive and certainly competitive with the iPad.