Stuff like a pretty case with slots for optical drives, a laptop with a shitton of ports and all-day battery life or anything else that seems to go against the trends.

This thread is for complaining about how you can’t find it and (maybe) finding it thanks to someone else.

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    3 days ago

    Cheap large e-ink android screen. Doesn’t need to do anything other than be a consistent, always on display with a long battery life.

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        3 days ago

        They look neat, but way too powerful and expensive, and not big enough. I want a whiteboard size e-ink display with a processor like a potato for like <100 USD

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          8 hours ago

          Hmm… The one I’ve seen; hisense for example its non touch, and the monitor is 1500 bucks… I’ve seen a big white board like thing at a local library and some schools, unsure what they are called or how much they cost. A quick search revealed the below but that is crazy expensive. I would then rather get a traditional white board with a marker and then take photos with a phone or camera and store in a hard drive… Not the same I guess…

          QuirkLogic Papyr - A large 42-inch E Ink display designed specifically as a digital whiteboard. Priced around $6,000-7,000.

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          RICOH eWhiteboard 4200 - A 42-inch E Ink collaborative whiteboard, similar price range to the QuirkLogic.

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        3 days ago

        As someone who’s been wanting a boox tablet for a while I don’t think they fit “cheap”

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          8 hours ago

          Yeah no you are right. I waited a couple years for pine64 tablet to become a commercially available project then gave up…then used paper and pencil a nd took photos everyday of my notes pages and manually stored them… But after a few notebooks my backup was getting large and tagging pages with text tags was getting annoying so Now I use go10.3 which wasn’t as expensive as some of the other ones like remarkable paper pro or boox tab ultra C pro… I use that offline. Copy things and docs via USB from laptop, and backup things manually and copy back into laptop manually…