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Re:The Modos Paper Laptop by ChuckNorris89 on Monday May 16, 2022 @04:12AM (#31394606)
Depends how you define high refresh rate. By regular e-paper standards the tech it has come quite far but still below the 60Hz you get in any cheapo LCD tech.

Also, the faster you refresh a e-paper display, the power consumption can even surpass power efficient LCD tech so it's just not viable in that case unless the panel has the capability of partial refresh but even then it's not ideal for consuming fast moving content.

E-paper displays are power efficient for static images (books, price tags, advertising, notifications, etc) but if you have to refresh them fully several times a second, the power consumption goes through the roof (moving the e-ink particles around in their pixel compartments requires more effort than rotating LCD crystals/OLED).

Re:The Modos Paper Laptop by alex-a-soto on Monday May 16, 2022 @12:38PM (#31399965)
One of the areas we are exploring is developing Wayland protocols that will offer native e-ink support to client applications.

We hope this may partially address the power consumption/efficiency of static/dynamic content related to e-paper displays.