This Color E Ink Monitor Promises It’s (Almost) Fast Enough to Keep Up With YouTube

We’ve seen E Ink devices meant to emulate a smartphone, E Ink displays positioned connected the flip broadside of a laptop lid, and adjacent a folding E Ink tablet. Still, somehow, the Boox Mira Pro colour E Ink show is the 1 paper-like surface I’m astir intrigued by. The lone question near is whether its refresh velocity is accelerated capable to support up with my browser’s many, galore tabs portion watching a YouTube video connected the side.

Boox is known for its e-readers, tablets, and its phone-sized Boox Palma. On the different end, the company’s Mira Pro black-and-white show seemed a small excessively overmuch similar a novelty without the enactment for color. The new, $1,900 Mira Pro with colour is an expensive, though promising merchandise that could marque staring astatine your surface easier connected the eyes.

Color E Ink utilizes ink capsules that get pulled astir with an electrical field. Boox’s show uses E Ink’s Kaleido 3 show tech that tin show 4,096 colors. The show benignant was created for tablets and different signage, but we’re a spot amazed it took truthful agelong for idiosyncratic to marque it into a full-fledged monitor.

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The Boox Mira Pro promises a accelerated capable refresh to ticker videos. Still, past attempts astatine utilizing Kaleido to ticker YouTube weren’t ideal. Boox claims its “Super Refresh” tin minimize immoderate ghosting that occurs erstwhile images alteration excessively accelerated for the show to support up. Even so, the institution makes it wide connected its website that “E Ink monitors’ refresh velocity is not arsenic precocious arsenic accepted monitors, and accrued velocity volition effect successful much ghosting.” So if you were reasoning you would usage this show for gaming astatine supra the emblematic 24 frames per second, you tin expect immoderate genuinely wonky visuals.

The Mira Pro comes with 4 modes that users tin power to erstwhile scrolling, reading, typing, oregon watching content. The E Ink show besides includes a carnal fastener you tin property to refresh the surface erstwhile it becomes necessary. The included basal allows for swivel and tilt. You tin besides crook it 90 degrees to usage it vertically, which is useful for coders.

We’ll person to spot it successful idiosyncratic to judge it, but determination are different reasons wherefore you’d privation a 25-inch E Ink show implicit a emblematic backlit IPS LCD monitor. The show benignant is typically little straining connected your eyes. After 8 hours consecutive of moving with a screen, a full-sized E Ink show sounds mighty appealing. The downside is that colors volition apt not look arsenic close arsenic they should connected an LCD oregon OLED display. Images volition besides look somewhat desaturated compared to the “inky” blacks of OLED.

The display’s specs aren’t excessively shabby. The solution is 3,200 x 1,800, and it has ports for HDMI, mini-HDMI, USB-C, and DisplayPort. The show besides includes dual speakers. That’s each par for the people connected your mean enactment monitor, but astatine $1,900, the colour Mira Pro is demanding a batch for its ample E Ink display. It costs astir arsenic overmuch arsenic the $2,000 Samsung Odyssey 3D, different niche show with a precise peculiar usage case. At slightest it’s wide there’s inactive country for radical to innovate with the old, staid desktop surface design.