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From the picture, it has the low-contrast look of an older E-ink display. Here's a higher-contrast E-ink display.[1] There are also emissive display laptops br
by Animats 2y ago
From the picture, it has the low-contrast look of an older E-ink display.
Here's a higher-contrast E-ink display.[1]
There are also emissive display laptops brighter than 1000 nits, which is about where they become sunlight-readable. Battery life might be a problem.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GKVM94N1F6E https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GKVM94N1F6E
- rpastuszak 2y agoMacBook pro M4 with a low-glare display and 1600 nits iirc works OK outdoors but still doesn't get close to eink in my opinion.
- TazeTSchnitzel 2y agoThe lower contrast is because it's not e-ink (with the very slow refresh times that implies). It's something more like an LCD.
- dredmorbius 2y agoFor values of "something like" strongly approaching "actually is a transflective LCD". <https://www.androidpolice.com/origins-daylight-dc-1-with-creator-anjan-katta/ https://www.androidpolice.com/origins-daylight-dc-1-with-cre...>
- WillAdams 2y agoYes, my take on this has always been, "Trying to outbright the sun with a battery-powered device is _not_ a brilliant approach." which is why I've always preferred transflective displays (and despair of replacing my Fujitsu Stylistic ST-4110 which was one of my most favourite computers, and probably the longest-lived --- still boot it up occasionally to use a scanner, and I'd use it for more if an 800MHz Pentium could cope with today's JavaScript on today's Web...)