I believe there’s a place for a portable with high travel keys, built like a tank and with e-ink display.
There’s certainly a lot of nostalgia, hipsterism and fetishism in the appeal of such product (I'm guilty of all 3), but maybe it’s not all there’s to it. Maybe it could be truly useful as well.
Oh, yeah...EL displays are awesome on the eyes. The T3100, the Grid and the Compaq portable with an EL display were so nice back in the day. Unfortunately, EL displays are extremely power hungry, so it was not to last. I actually have an EL VT-220 terminal clone in my homelab.
Whatever the appeal is, I have it too. I've been playing with the idea of fitting a e-ink and someing RPi-ish into a Toshiba T1000 formfactor (I have a dead one). Another project on the pile. I think for cranking out writing, it could be a winner.
There’s certainly a lot of nostalgia, hipsterism and fetishism in the appeal of such product (I'm guilty of all 3), but maybe it’s not all there’s to it. Maybe it could be truly useful as well.