Great review! Waiting the comparison between mira and max lumi as a display. Currently want to buy max lumi 2 mainly for the purpose of wireless e-ink display, there's nothing in the web even comparable to your videos

Ezri Carlebach

Great video (as ever!), did you use the Mira for reading Kindle books (or similar)? Is it possible to hold it for extended periods just for reading?

ytcdi

Great review. Unfortunately for Boox, in all their current (and previous years') devices, their screen contrast is not as good as the latest Kindles, (.. been there, done that ..) and it doesn't work for me. The characters, icons, images, etc., are just too washed out for my taste, compared to the Kindle (like the latest Oasis for example).

ytcdi

@Of the Refrain So you get rid of your Kindle and I get rid of my Boox, happy days

Ryan W. West

Awesome video! I'm sure you covered this somewhere in the video, but do you think this a big enough jump over using a monitor app on the Max Lumi 1? Seeing as they are the same size, I don't see a huge benefit but I'm guessing the screen is even more optimized for latency.

Sascha Heid

@Daniel Kao Maybe in a speed mode, in the high quality mode it's just as slow. The Lumi is actually faster regarding the mouse movement then the Mira, i use them side by side both at the highest quality setting.

Daniel Kao

@Sascha Heid it's much faster comparing to ONYX Max3. I'm not sure how Max Lumi performs, however, Mira allows you to move mouse cursor quickly and it's matching up the speed you move on screen. That's not possbile for Max3, and I think Max Lumi can't do it well either.

Sascha Heid

2y↑1

The Mira is not any faster unfortunately. It has some usefull features. The refresh button, the ports, the stronger frontlight, the app etc. but faster it is not. It has most likely the same display.

Lydiane Cyber

2y↑4

Omg! Been waiting for it!
Just started watching it so really keeping my fingers crossed that it’s an excellent product since I already ordered it 😅

Matt

Thank you for the review, was there any mouse lag on the highest speed modes?

Panin S.

2y↑1

It doesn't work well with Mac with Apple Silicon. I'm on MBP 14" M1 Pro and the flickering problem is really annoying. All the greyish area (which's a lot) is flickering. This problem doesn't occur with Intel-based Mac or PC, I tested. Boox had released an update on August 2021 trying to address this problem but I didn't see any improvements, to be honest.

Panin S.

@My Deep Guide well, it's flickering on "all" of the grey areas which are currently displaying on the screen, whenever you're moving a cursor, or there's something (even it's just a little) animated on the screen. On PC or Intel-based Mac, the grey area will be flickering specifically where or around the cursor, not the whole screen. Boox seemed to be aware of this issue so they released the v1 firmware addressing on the 'jitter problem on Mac with M1 chip' and introduced "Anti-shake Automatically" option. But I don't think that helps much.

Turning the grey areas into black, as in Text Mode, or exploding them into white does getting rid of the problem as it's only specific to shades of grey — but, well, you can only work with Text only in this kind of settings. The Video Mode doesn't have that flickering problem too, but the overall resolution is really degraded.

My Deep Guide

2y↑1

Thank you for the update on the newer platforms. If there isn't a way to force the source platform to display pure white, yeah, that will degrade the image quality by quite a margine. Have you tried increasing the whiteness to tuen the gray into white? Is it possible, or will it just explode the rest of the constant too much?

Tom X

Thank you!
I am using Mira monitor on a daily basis.

I also have Android 11 but nothing happened after connecting it to Mira (via supplied USB-C cable).
How did you set up you smartphone so that it works fine for you ?

Tom X

@My Deep Guide Thank You for answering.
Google Pixel 4 should have enough power.
Nevertheless, I tried with external power but without any success :(
I was wondering what USB settings you are using on your smartphone - meaning: File Transfer / USB Tethering / Midi / PTP ?

My Deep Guide

2y↑1

Nothing at all. I simply plugged it in and it worked. Have you tried supplying it with external power? Maybe your device can't supply enough power to the screen.

marconi

In my opinion, making eNote as an external monitor could have been done as a software feature even today on devices that have USB C connection plus on-screen refresh/brightness/contrast control. It doesn't make a lot of sense to have an external ePaper monitor at this price point.