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    Xbrite in sunlight

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by sjacobson, Mar 15, 2005.

  1. sjacobson

    sjacobson Newbie

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    Has anyone have any experiance using a Xbrite display outdoors? I use my laptop for one month a year to run marine navigation software. I would rather not pay the extra money for a transflective daylight readable screen I would not need eleven months of the year. If I could get by and read a Xbrite 17" WUXGA in daylight, it would give me a lot of real estate for the charting software and a great screen at my desk the reat of the year.
     
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    miston Notebook Enthusiast

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    just a thought, assuming the Xbrite does NOT work good in sunlight, could you not use some sort of anti-glare screen cover, like secretaries use to use (or still do)?

    Because once you've seen the high-gloss displays (Xbrite, Crstal, whatever) they look SO good, you can't go back to the old
     
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    sjacobson Newbie

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    In the past on my laptop with a regular screen I have used a Hood Man, which covers the screen with a hood and leaves an opening for the eyes about a foot from the screen. This works, but you to lean down to the eye slot to see and then you have no peripheral vision. This similar to the old radar hoods. It would be more advatages to just glance down at the screen.
     
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