All I know is that if my grandmother had wheels she’d be a bike.

For anyone that does mostly office work/paperwork, yes.

For everyone else, not so much. The refresh on eink displays is often orders if magnitude longer than with traditional displays, so forget watching YouTube or something, on a display like this.

Almost every display in existence does 60+ Hz. This is required for light emitting displays, since humans generally see 60Hz flickers of light as solid light (consistently on), so they have to run at that frequency to produce an image that doesn’t look like it’s flickering on and off.

With eink, it’s only reflecting light, not emitting it, so update times can be and are, a lot slower. Due to the mechanism that’s bringing the relevant pigments to the surface, which isn’t fast, you’ll see these displays measured more in seconds per frame than frames per second. Partial updates of the screen can be done much faster, but full frame updates can take several seconds. Eg, adding one more character (while typing a document), is a quick update and can happen many times per second on most eink displays, changing the whole screen, which happens often in video content, takes 1+ second(s) to complete.

So for the office drones that deal with email and text files all day, this is great. For any media content including TV, movies and video games, this is utterly useless.

Anybody who cares about their eyes?

If the resolution is high enough, readers of comics, newspaper, magazines, textbooks, children’s books, maps, etc.

I’m a graphic designer, and it could be interesting for working on CMYK files and actually see them as they would look on paper.

If it were more reasonably priced, I’d be excited to buy one. I sit in front of a screenful of code all day and it’s tiring on the eyes. Black-and-white e-ink is not as desirable because it’s helpful to have colourful syntax highlighting.

I’d personally kill for a monitor like this because I work with text all day, every day.

Lots of people. This is great for office workers, because e-ink doesn’t cause eye strain like monitors do. And if all you’re doing is working with documents, this is a fantastic way to go.

It’s already possible, with a remarkable 2 and a special vnc client https://github.com/matteodelabre/vnsee. Though I have not tried it yet, it looks great, but the screen is way smaller than an usual pc monitor

Yeah I’m really surprised they didn’t go with a laptop screen rather than a monitor designed to be left in a fixed place! Whoever’s first to market with a good laptop e-ink display is going to rake it in.