Boox launches its first color E Ink monitor

Boox has upgrade its Mira Pro E Ink show with the aforesaid colour surface exertion recovered successful e-readers. | Image: Boox

Boox is debuting its first desktop show featuring a colour E Ink screen. The caller mentation of the Boox Mira Pro carries implicit the aforesaid functionality arsenic the black-and-white mentation that launched successful 2023, but utilizing the aforesaid E Ink colour show exertion recovered successful devices similar the Kindle Colorsoft.

E Ink offers respective advantages to show technologies similar LCD and OLED, including a surface that reflects airy alternatively of emitting it, truthful it’s perchance easier connected the eyes for prolonged use. Still, ample E Ink panels are expensive. The Mira Pro Color is lone 25.3-inches successful size but is priced astatine $1,899.99. Boox besides says its Mira Series of E Ink monitors lone vessel from China and “some countries whitethorn levy tariffs connected the imported goods.” If you’re having 1 shipped to the US, it could outgo you a batch more.

While devices similar the Remarkable Paper Pro usage E Ink’s much precocious Gallery 3 surface exertion that tin show implicit 50,000 colors, its dilatory refresh complaint makes it problematic for desktop computing tasks similar browsing the web. The Mira Pro Color alternatively uses a 3,200 x 1,800 E Ink Kaleido 3 sheet that tin lone show a constricted palette of 4,096 antithetic colors. Its refresh capabilities besides can’t lucifer the champion LCD oregon OLED screens, but Boox offers 4 customizable show modes balancing representation prime and show that’s accelerated capable to ticker videos.

The Mira Pro Color features beforehand lighting akin to what’s recovered successful e-readers with the enactment to set the colour somesthesia to warmer hues astatine night. It’s besides got a brace of speakers, a dedicated refresh fastener connected the broadside to region ghosting, and 5 ports including HDMI, mini HDMI, USB-C, and DisplayPort.

If you’re a gamer, photograph oregon video editor, oregon idiosyncratic who uses their desktop show for watching TV and movies, the Mira Pro Color isn’t for you. But if you walk your days editing text, writing, oregon crunching numbers successful spreadsheets successful a abstraction with plentifulness of light, an E Ink show mightiness beryllium worthy considering, peculiarly if you find yourself often dealing with oculus strain.