The Boox Go 10.3 Part III: Battery Life and More 

Merci beaucoup.

I should have thought of the GPU. Good call.

True, I wish they did a Tab series without any LED lighting though. Both, a black and white, and a colour one... or this one with BSR 😅

I'd agree about the margin of error potentially being a factor. Or maybe the Kobo app is less battery efficient.

I haven't played D&D in years. I remember the great innovation then was having an excel version of the character sheet. I used to bring a laptop into sessions just because of that. Now, I don't know this from experience, but I'd imagine that an e-ink tablet would be even better as it would take up less space, wouldn't need to be plugged in, and of course replicate the paper experience of a character sheet. Now that I think about it, I'm kind of wishing I still played just to try that out. After all, you can run mobile Excel on the Go.

@@jeffreymoss yes, actually ordered Go 10.3 because of your videos. will use it on my sessions for note taking and other stuff. but still, would love to hear story about that wall behind and all those swords:)

@@TimGalloVids Take a look at my short videos. I think I only did 5 or 6 of them, but they all center around talking about my study/studio and a bit of background on some of the objects there, including the swords.

In the examples I printed, the Vector was 141kb and the Bitmap was 51kb. I assume the distinguishing feature is that the Bitmap is an image PDF and the Vector file is an editable PDF?

@@jeffreymoss Yes, but that doesn't explain why the vector PDF is larger. It certainly isn't due to the vector format itself. I did a quick test with Inkscape, which is a vector editor. When exporting a PDF with vectors, the resulting PDF actually ended up being smaller than the native SVG vector file that I created it from. Reason being that the PDF doesn't need all the information that is in the native file. Perhaps Boox is embedding lots of other information in the PDF, making the file size larger? Sounds weird, though.

I do my measurements consistently across devices and isolate the factors with each test (e.g. I don't have wifi on when I'm testing stand-by time, etc). I don't think most reviewers use this particular approach, but I may be mistaken in that regard. Actual battery drain is so dependent on how a device is actually used, I go with my approach to at least compare devices on level terms. In my tables, the Go beat the NA3C on two measures, lost on two, and tied on the fifth, so that's more of a mixed result in my mind. It makes sense that the two devices are close, as they use the same processor and have the same battery size. I am a little surprised the NA3C doesn't fare worse overall due to the GPU it has that the Go does not, but maybe my tests don't rely on the GPU and that's the factor that is impacting other reviewers' observations. Those are the only factors I can think of that might explain the difference.

Yeah, I'm not sure about that. At one point I tried a special film on the Tab Ultra C with a titanium nib, and it definitely had a unique sound and feel. Ultimately, I peeled the film off and returned to plastic nibs, which I prefer. I think part of the reason why I'm good with plastic nibs is that I rarely have to replace them given I don't put a lot of pressure on the stylus. And the sound they create isn't as harsh to my ears. Of course, I use my Supernote with a ceramic nib, and I do love that. I actually prefer the film on the original screen over the Feelwrite 2. Anyway, that's my two cents on that. I'd suggest going to the Reddit forums, like Onyx_Boox and asking about different screen films there. I know there are a lot of people in the forum that use things like titanium nibs, so you should get a lot of good information there.

There is. I've never used it before. But while in the app, you can go into the E-Ink Center, and then next to Refresh Modes you can see an icon for More. Click on that and at the bottom there's a slider for Animation Filter Time. It can only be used if the app is in either Normal or Regal refresh modes. I tried it out and it does reduce the flicker of the pages when switching to a new one. Thanks for asking, I've learned something!

I'm not sure. Before every test, I close any programs running in the background to make sure that doesn't influence the results.

I can't explain it, but I can speculate. We know with screen on there should be no drain happening because nothing on the screen is changing except for the battery meter. So, based on that, I think the difference is that the system is more active in this state than being on standby.

I'm not aware of a tutorial, but I might be able to help. Let's start with the first steps. You have to bind your Google account. To do that, go to Settings > Accounts > View (next to Notes Sync Accounts) > Bind Account, and then follow the instructions from there. If you have done this already, you should be good to go. Keep in mind that auto sync will not work with Google Drive, so you will have to either manually sync or save the file (by exiting it) in order to trigger the upload. Be sure to have wifi on when that occurs, otherwise the upload won't occur. If none of this helps, feel free to provide more information and I'll see what I can do to help.

@@jeffreymoss Thank you for the help

I may have missed something, but I thought it performed terribly. I'd write on the screen and it looked like nothing was captured. A few seconds later, I would see writing, but with lag like that, the app is unusable. I only tried stylus input, I didn't look into the keyboard. The performance wasn't great either, and the contrast meant that I had a hard time seeing some of the system pop up screens. It's possible I could have tweaked things to make some of that a bit better, but the pen lag is something I don't see how to get around.

I tested a bluetooth mouse, and it was ok. Passable, but not something I'd recommend. It seems to work best in X mode, but A2 is a close second, which is good since typing works best in that mode. I did appreciate being able to use the scroll wheel on the mouse though, that was a nice touch.

I blame my parents. My first two swords came from them when they abandoned the weapons, I took them, and that's when my trouble started.