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docs(quality-house): drop reMarkable W1 to 2 after firsthand test

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reMarkable 2 with Type Folio tested less responsive than Freewrite Smart
Typewriter (Sailfish). With Smart at 3, reMarkable drops one notch to 2.
Total: reMarkable 42 → 41, now tied with Smart at 41.
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Julien Calixte
2026-05-16 14:38:01 +02:00
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@@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ market"), not as a fair head-to-head buyer's guide.
% Pass 1: stash each score as a named coordinate so the profile lines
% below can reuse it without recomputing.
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1/4/3/4/5/3,
1/4/2/4/5/3,
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@@ -584,7 +584,7 @@ hackable-Linux 3).
| ID | WHAT (truncated) | Typoena | reM. | Frw.T | Frw.S | Pom. | Rationale (shortest defensible) |
| --- | ----------------------------------------------- | :--: | :--: | :---: | :---: | :--: | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| W1 | Sub-second response to typing | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 5 | Typoena targets ≤200 ms; reMarkable e-ink laggy; both Freewrites post-Sailfish trimmed latency 40–100 % (Frw.T plausibly inside 200 ms; Frw.S still trails by one notch on larger panel); Pomera LCD ~zero. |
| W1 | Sub-second response to typing | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 5 | Typoena targets ≤200 ms; reMarkable e-ink visibly laggy — tested less responsive than Smart Typewriter; both Freewrites post-Sailfish trimmed latency 40–100 % (Frw.T plausibly inside 200 ms; Frw.S still trails by one notch on larger panel); Pomera LCD ~zero. |
| W2 | Publishing is one deliberate action away | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | Ctrl-G atomic; reMarkable + Freewrite cloud-sync is one-tap but not git; Pomera = USB/SD copy or QR transfer. |
| W3 | Pulling power never corrupts the file | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | Typoena: atomic-rename + fsync. reMarkable journals. Freewrite + Pomera: forum reports of corruption on yank. |
| W4 | Provisioning never interrupts writing | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | Typoena v0.1: build-time config (dev-only). reM/Frw need Wi-Fi + account. Pomera: literally none. |
@@ -599,11 +599,12 @@ hackable-Linux 3).
| W13 | Typography sets a writing-tool tone | 3 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | Typoena v0.1: single mono (serif option in v1.0). reMarkable: rich type rendering. Freewrite + Pomera: utilitarian. |
**Totals** (sum across 13 WHATs, no weighting): Typoena 50, Pomera 45,
Freewrite Traveler 42, reMarkable 42 (tied after Sailfish — pre-Sailfish
Traveler totalled 39), Freewrite Smart Typewriter 41 (pre-Sailfish 38).
Pomera still ranking second is the useful signal — we're effectively
building "Pomera + Wi-Fi + git + hackable BOM", which re-confirms the
differentiation thesis from `README.md`.
Freewrite Traveler 42, reMarkable 41, Freewrite Smart Typewriter 41
(Traveler pre-Sailfish 39; Smart pre-Sailfish 38; reMarkable W1 dropped
3→2 after author's firsthand test). Pomera still ranking second is the
useful signal — we're effectively building "Pomera + Wi-Fi + git +
hackable BOM", which re-confirms the differentiation thesis from
`README.md`.
Weighted totals (Σ score × W weight) tell the same story with more
contrast — left as exercise; the unweighted view is enough to read the