<story><title>Introducing the PineNote</title><url>https://www.pine64.org/2021/08/15/introducing-the-pinenote/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>danShumway</author><text>Oh, this is exciting. The performance and latency is a huge variable though.&lt;p&gt;For a lot of these experimental hacker-friendly devices, I&amp;#x27;m willing to tolerate a lot of compromises. Even here, the software, the out-of-the-box experience isn&amp;#x27;t really that important to me. Arguably, you can get away with even more compromise on a device like this than on something like the Pinephone. But it has to have amazing pen performance, or it&amp;#x27;s just not worth working with. Everything else except that is either fixable or something that probably isn&amp;#x27;t getting in the way of the core point of the device.&lt;p&gt;IMO Remarkable got this right -- their software support is by many metrics quite bad (although I guess it&amp;#x27;s slowly started to improve). Their device handles PDFs kind of poorly from what I can tell. It&amp;#x27;s expensive. The interface seems slower and more laggy than many other EReaders. But none of that really matters, what matters is they have arguably the best pen latency and physical texturing on the E-ink market, and that writing on the device feels good.&lt;p&gt;So the same thing applies here: the price seems completely reasonable to me, I have no issues with a $400 price tag. I&amp;#x27;d pay $600, the price isn&amp;#x27;t the issue. But I need to see videos and testimonial that the pen latency isn&amp;#x27;t just &amp;quot;acceptable&amp;quot;, but that it&amp;#x27;s really good. Otherwise it&amp;#x27;s not even worth $100.&lt;p&gt;Writing experience is one of those things where once you get used to a lack of latency&amp;#x2F;offset, and used to a more accurate feel, it gets progressively harder and harder to go back to anything that&amp;#x27;s worse.</text></comment>
<story><title>Introducing the PineNote</title><url>https://www.pine64.org/2021/08/15/introducing-the-pinenote/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dchuk</author><text>This is a pretty sweet looking device. Even despite this call out “As for the actual user interface, we’re currently talking to the good folks at KDE and trying to figure out whether Plasma Mobile or regular Plasma (with panel-specific tweaks of course) will be the best fit for this particular device. As you can probably tell, this is an uncharted territory for all parties involved, but we’ll figure it out. Needless to say, the software isn’t finished – indeed, we don’t really even know yet what will work well with this technology and what won’t. It is just the beginning of our journey with e-ink technology, and it will take a long time and much effort to make the PineNote end-user worthy.” This still seems worthwhile to pre order if you’re a heavy reader and note taker.&lt;p&gt;Anyone know how this compares with the remarkable?</text></comment>