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Datasheet and manuals: paper or tablet?
PlainName:
This is a pretty good demo of the Air next to an iPad:
I don't think he mentions it but you can affect speed a bit by electing to use a quicker refresh at the expense of quality (that is, ghosting of previous pages): fast and dirty, slow and clean, so-so and so-so, effectively.
I also not he has the iPad plugged in but not the Air. How long would the battery be expected to last on the iPad?
PlainName:
Ah! Wish I'd stumbled across this channel sooner. He does a pretty good job of comparing actual paper, e-ink and the iPad.
Pretty much what this topic was asking, I think.
ogden:
Modern electronics requires modern approach. Unless you are using prehistoric components, you will run out of paper and ink printing datasheets of modern devices. Use your computer as datasheet reading device as we all do :)
aandrew:
--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on May 24, 2021, 08:15:00 pm ---I also not he has the iPad plugged in but not the Air. How long would the battery be expected to last on the iPad?
--- End quote ---
If all I'm doing is using it to search/read/skip around a large PDF (STM32F7 reference manual), I can get a good 4 hours out of it, although I have to say that's not normally how I would be using it. I usually have the documentation open, skip around, get what I need, skip around some more, get what I need... it's never multiple hours at a time. If I were to try to do that I think it'd definitely be close to dead after 4 hours. One thing the iPad's not known for is stellar battery life, primarily because of that screen.
PlainName:
OK, ta.
The Boox you'd imagine would have a very long battery life (like a Kindle or similar) since it doesn't need to stay awake to keep the screen going, but if you use it always-on you notice it runs down rather quicker. I haven't actually run it flat yet, but I think we're talking days rather than weeks (or hours).
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