It’s the year of e-ink! #remarkable vs #OnyxBooxTabUltra http://tiktok.com/t/ZTRv8UQvf/
@shanselman god bless this post
i agonized over this, got the Tab Ultra, and now I feel good
@shanselman Do you have a favorite yet? Trying to decide around which to lean into.
@tedneward I’m going back and forth. Here’s the thing. The remarkable is single tasking, lush, posh, thing, solid, expensive. It does handwriting and PDFs *very very* well. The Onyx Boox Tab Ultra is a very complete clearly Android tablet with an amazing screen, speaker and camera. It’s an android. But I love that the remarkable is less. It’s more polished and does ONE THING astonishing well. It’s a sushi knife while the other is a Swiss Army knife.
@shanselman @tedneward You can get a ReMarkable cover (not type) for $34 on Amazon. Staedtler’s compatible pen is another $50-odd, and looks like a regular pencil. That saves at least $120 off OEM’s ticker price.
@shanselman hoping for prices for color e-ink screens to really come down; these would be so much better on basically any appliance or small device than the light polluting and energy-sucking led/oled stuff there is now.
@thomasfuchs the tech just isn’t there https://www.youtube.com/live/lJWwlXS_cTM?feature=share seek into about 60% in
@shanselman I hope it will be in not too long. Way more existed about this than any LLM.
@shanselman I love that you’re posting this just as my kindle scribe is arriving 😂 https://666.glitchwit.ch/@kf/110065241393602674
@shanselman the remarkable looks truly interesting, but it seems to need a monthly subscription to work?
@arthurwyatt@wandering.shop @shanselman@hachyderm.io
Nope, you can use it perfectly well without a subscription too.
The amazing thing (for me) is that it is a plain Linux machine, that you can ssh to. You can scp files back and forth, install software, or even mount the filesystem using sshfs. I ran some Python scripts of the mounted filesystem to fix some stuff in metadata of a stack of PDFs I had copied over.
My one gripe is that the epub/pdf reader page turns are wonky. For whatever reason, my pageturn swipes just don't register well. It irritates me immensely, but otherwise I am a happy user.
@arthurwyatt for the screen sharing and some integration yes
@shanselman @arthurwyatt reMarkable no longer requires a subscription for screen sharing and integrations, just for long-term backup and their new typing tools
@shanselman TikTok is blocked in India, Which one is your fave?
@shanselman I’m curious your thoughts on the Ultra after a few weeks. I always get really excited initially about a new Boox device and then usually find myself gravitate back to the reMarkable when it’s time to get work done.
@brandonkboswell I totally agree, and I’m having trouble explaining it to some people. There’s just something extremely iOS like about the reMarkable. It’s incredibly polished, thin, and tight. The Boox is plastic and messy.
@shanselman it’s subtle and doesn’t show on the spec sheet, but is clear after significant usage. It’s just really challenging to communicate especially to people who have never used either or only used one.