I preordered the Remarkable 2 and I’m excited to get it. I’m a bit surprised by everyone here talking about how they use it for note taking, because my entire purpose for getting one is to read and annotate pdf files with it. Does it do a good job for this compared to an iPad (which I use currently with iAnnotate)? Someone mentioned that the processor is too slow to render pdf pages quickly enough. Is this true only for high resolution rasterized PDFs or also for native vectorized ones? Hopefully the new version has a faster chip.
In the case of ReMarkable 1, there are almost no issues with vectorised PDFs - when changing pages the screen update is usually the limiting factor, and that's relatively quick. For rasters, though, it does take a while to render out (>1 second for particularly complex pages). I think this is mostly a software limitation - some time is given over to drawing and saving the small thumbnail.
