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Onyx has been selling eBook readers with E Ink displays under the Onyx BOOX brand for more than a decade, and in recent years the company has expanded its product lineup to include models with E Ink color displays or pocket-sized design. But most of the company’s recent products are basically ePaper tablets meant for writing, with big screens and support for pen and keyboard input.
The Onyx BOOX Note Max is one of the company’s largest largest writing tablets to date, with a 13.3 inch display, making it nearly the size of an A4 sheet of paper. Onyx says the Note Max should be available soon for $650. Update: It’s now available for purchase from Amazon or the BOOX Shop, although Amazon says it can take 1-2 months to ship.
That makes it more expensive than some other E Ink writing tablets like the reMarkable 2 ($379), Amazon Kindle Scribe ($400), or Kobo Elipsa 2E ($400). But those devices all have smaller displays and run purpose-built operating systems that may allow them to do some things better than an Onyx BOOX device, but which makes it harder to do things like install third-party applications.
It’s also cheaper than the similarly-sized Onyx BOOX Tab X, another 13.3 inch E Ink tablet which currently sells for $800 despite running an older version of Android and shipping with a lower quality display than the new Note Max.
Onyx says the Note Max has an unspecified 2.8 GHz octa-core processor, 6GB of RMA, and 128GB of storage, a “tablet-like” user interface, and a big screen with a paper-like writing experience thanks to a coating that provides friction when you drag a pen across the screen.
The display is an E Ink Carta 1300 screen with 300 pixels per inch and support for Onyx BOOX “Super Refresh” technology which lets you decide whether to prioritize image quality or higher-motion graphics for smoother scrolling.
Other features include an Android 13-based operating system, support for input from a pressure-sensitive digital pen or a magnetic keyboard, and a body that measures just 4.6mm thick.
While Onyx has revealed that the BOOX Note Max will sell for $650, the company hasn’t yet added detailed specs to its website and isn’t taking orders for the new tablet yet. But we did get a sneak peek during a product launch on YouTube.
This article was first published October 23, 2024 and most recently updated January 2, 2025.
