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+title: "Onyx Boox Half Year Later 📚"
+date: 2024-04-06T20:02:24+02:00
+katex: true
+tags: ["random"]
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+Something completely different today. I've been using my [Onyx Boox Note Air 2](https://onyxboox.com/boox_noteair2plus) for half a year now and I thought it's a good time to share my thoughts on it.
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+**tl;dr** The Onyx Boox is a great device for writing and reading, however iPad could've been just as good for me.
+
+## What's Onyx Boox?
+
+I like to write down things at work, in free time and I was always drowning in sheets of paper lying around.
+One day I've learned about Remarkable and Onyx Boox and I was like "yeah, that's what I need".
+Remarkable and Onyx Boox are e-ink tablets that you can write on with stylus.
+
+## Why Onyx Boox?
+
+After reading reviews I saw that while they're comparable in terms of price, Onyx Boox don't have a subscription model (with Remarkable you have to pay for cloud storage for your notes).
+Additionally, Onyx Boox has Android and backlit screen, which is a huge advantage for me.
+
+## What was my experience?
+
+Let me just use bullet points here:
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+1. When it comes to writing, it's great, it feels like writing on paper.
+2. I guess that it's great for reading and annotating scientific papers.
+3. The battery lasts for ever, the tablet is turning of automatically which is great.
+4. Android works, you can check mails, browse the internet, visit slack. However, mobile phone is much better for that.
+5. The notes I make are not beautiful, but I discovered it's because of me, not the tablet xD
+6. Everything is smooth and nice, the screen is very sharp.
+7. I thought, I'll read books on it and browse the internet, but mobile phone / Kindle are much better for that.
+8. The backlit is great. You can adjust the color temperature and brightness which is great.
+9. The UI is very... simple. I mean it's intuitive, but it's not very pretty, which is a shame.
+
+## Conclusions
+
+I'm happy with my purchase. Recently Onyx released a new model, with color e-ink screen, which is very tempting. However, I don't think I need it.
+What I'm thinking actually is whether an old iPad with stylus would be better for me.
+I paid ~2300 PLN, 570$ for it, for this price I could get a decent iPad, some mate screen protector and a stylus.
+Some people say, they're distracted by iPad, but I think I could manage that.
+And well, with iPad all the experience outside of writing would be much better.
+That being said, I'm happy with my Onyx Boox. I'm using it every day and my notes are nicely organized.
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+So this is the review, I hope you find it useful.