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    A question that must be stupid (transflective?)

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by l33t_c0w, May 16, 2007.

  1. l33t_c0w

    l33t_c0w Notebook Deity

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    I was looking at my iPod outside the other day, and I thought "Wait a minute; the text is readable." The colors were a bit odd, but still, it was pretty clear. So here's the obvious question: why doesn't anyone make these screens for laptops? Price, weight, image quality?

    (I can't shake the feeling that I just asked why the airplane wasn't made of the same material as the black box... I hate that joke.)
     
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    The Dell Latitude ATG offers transflective screens. But it is very expensive. This is probably the main reason. Besides, transflective screens are only useful for those who use their notebooks outdoors, which is not the majority of users.
     
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    I just bought an ATG, it's not transflective, just very bright - 500 nits (most laptops are around 200). This is great outdoors. I had a true transflective before this, a NEC Versa Daylite. That screen was good outdoors, but unusable indoors (too dim, you need light shining on it). There are some transflectives like the ones that are applied to Portableone's laptops that are supposed to be usable in both indoors and outdoors, but this ATG is (in my opinion) way better than transflective. The brightness rocks.
     
    acropora, May 24, 2007
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