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Why is that? Do you do a lot of computing outdoors in direct sunlight? I'll admit, the idea of a laptop whose LCD can go transparent to reveal an e-ink displa
by Causality1 7y ago
Why is that? Do you do a lot of computing outdoors in direct sunlight? I'll admit, the idea of a laptop whose LCD can go transparent to reveal an e-ink display behind it is very appealing.
- errantspark 7y agoIt wouldn't need an e-ink display. The backlight is separate from the display, remember the GameBoy Color? You just need a reflective layer that polarizes the light.
- Causality1 7y agoI do wonder why transflective displays went out of style. My PDAs from 2003-2007 were all perfectly viewable in direct sunlight in color.
- bch 7y ago> Why is that? Not OP, but I daydream of a big character cell display for console work, especially my development work which is basically vi and a few other tools multiplexed in tmux. Not sure how it’d play out in reality, but in my mind it’s just more pleasant to work with hour over hour.
- FullyFunctional 7y agoThat close to why I got the Dasung: to be able to work outside. I’m mostly in tmux, Emacs, or reading docs, so the colors is irrelevant and refresh rates ok.
- bch 7y agoAh cool! So you have practical experience - how’s that all going then? The biggest Dasung I saw on my quick search was ~13”, and very expensive; do you feel like yours was a worthwhile experience?
- FullyFunctional 7y agoFor me it's kind of pointless indoors and the weather is not yet ideal for outdoors. When I did use it outdoors (a couple of days) it worked as advertised, but using an external monitor was awkward. A notebook with the same panel would have been much better. TL;DR: probably not, but I'm still evaluating. (A proper stand for it might also help - what's included is laughably flimsy)