This is the Note Air5 C Color ePaper Notebook, BOOX’s latest digital scribble machine, and the clearest sign yet that we should stop calling laptops “notebooks”. A notebook is for writing, doodling, and pretending to be productive. That is the Note Air5 C. It is a digital notebook with actual notebook energy, powered by a 10.3-inch Kaleido 3 color ePaper display that feels dangerously close to real paper. So close you may try to flip it like a magazine. I am not responsible for that.
This screen delivers 300 ppi in black and white and 150 ppi in color, with support for 4096 colors. Comics pop. Textbooks shine. And your random doodles suddenly look like art. Under the hood, it has a Qualcomm 2.4 GHz octa-core chip with a BSR GPU, 6 GB RAM, and 64 GB storage. If you hoard PDFs like a digital dragon, you can expand storage via microSD to 2 TB.
The Note Air5 C runs on Android 15, so it is not locked into a walled garden. Drop in your favorite apps, take notes with the BOOX Pen 3, or slap on the magnetic keyboard case to turn it into a tiny productivity slab. It weighs just 440 g and measures a slim 5.8 mm, which is great for your bag and terrible for your habit of losing things. The 3700 mAh battery keeps it going, while ComfortGaze front light tech keeps your eyeballs happy.
This notebook is not a laptop misusing the product name. It is an actual notebook. OK. Maybe the price isn’t the paper variant “notebook” price. It commands a pretty hefty US$529.99.
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