On one hand, it's obviously awesome and fast. There is no monitor that comes close to matching the lumens of ambient daylight, and this is why programmers get terrible eyesight. Being outside raises my happiness and probably my effective intelligence. So I have long been waiting for a display with sufficient reflected readability and refresh rate to be able to program outside.

On the other hand, reflective LCDs are not new technology. The Hannsnote 2 is coming to the US at half the price in August. That's around the same time that the Daylight preorders in the current batch would be ready. Or I fly to Taiwan for a vacation and and buy it there. I could also get the Nxtpaper from amazon UK but r/reflective_lcd says that Hannsnote is better.

Maybe Daylight has some secret sauce that makes their displays much better than the competitors? I kinda wonder if they are just better at marketing to the tech crowd though

Related: /SG/will-i-love-daylight-computer