ZDNET's key takeaways The Boox Note Air 4C is a color ePaper tablet for notes and reading, available for $500.
The tablet's display is crisp and paper-like, and the included pen is accurate and sensitive, making it easy to create highly detailed sketches.
The Note Air 4C isn't cheap, at $530, and the included pen is much thicker than the tablet, so it falls off easily. $509.99 at Amazon
For months now, I've used the Boox Note Air 4C tablet as my go-to digital notebook. This tablet is the perfect companion for those who like taking notes on the go, but it's also become the best substitute for my bullet journal.
Writing on the Boox Note Air 4C tablet feels similar to writing on paper, though it's never exactly the same. However, the included pen is fast and responsive. The pressure-sensitive Boox pen is unforgiving, providing a contrasting experience to the Apple Pencil Pro.
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I've been using the Apple Pencil Pro on the iPad Mini 7 and iPad Air, and it makes calligraphy easy, disguising mildly uneven strokes and making most handwritten cursive fonts look appealing. The Boox pen on the Note Air 4C is better than the Apple Pencil Pro for more precise, meticulous work, like sketching and drawing. The pressure-sensitive mechanism also works beautifully for calligraphy, but it sometimes fails to transition smoothly from thick to thin lines.
I'm an avid bullet-journaler -- I love the freedom of creating calendar and page layouts that suit my needs. Naturally, I transitioned to making the Boox Note Air 4C my new journal, especially because bullet journaling as a hobby is hard to maintain, with work consuming a lot of my time and my kids consuming my pens.
The Boox Note Air 4C's 10.3-inch display is a Kaleido 3 color E Ink screen. This display's black-and-white resolution is 300 ppi, but its color resolution is only 150 ppi. Color images won't appear crisp and detailed on the Boox Note Air 4C; instead, they look slightly blurry and noisy.
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