laptops with transflective screens

[dpopiz]

what models with transflective (readable in sunlight) screens and light weight?

 

[dpopiz]

bump?

 

[Tostada]

I suspect that nobody answered because someone with 4000 posts should really know better than to ask something so absurdly vague. You need to at least define what you mean by light weight.

About half the laptops currently being sold have transflective screens. I doubt any of them are comfortably readable in direct sunlight. Gateway's transflective screens don't seem to be quite as glare-inducing as the Dell ones, but nothing's really ideal in the sun.

 

[dpopiz]

Originally posted by: Tostada
I suspect that nobody answered because someone with 4000 posts should really know better than to ask something so absurdly vague. You need to at least define what you mean by light weight.

About half the laptops currently being sold have transflective screens. I doubt any of them are comfortably readable in direct sunlight. Gateway's transflective screens don't seem to be quite as glare-inducing as the Dell ones, but nothing's really ideal in the sun.

are you sure about that? half of laptops sold with transflective screens? I know a lot of them have some new kind of NON-transflective screen, but according to my research, there are only a handful of models that truly do have transflective

 

[ai42]

I have no idea transreflective screens are fairly rare. I think Apple likes useing them (or at least did in the past) but don't know if that is still true. Panasonic Toughbooks I think have them (they are expected to be used by military/law enforcment outsides).

EDIT: Now that I think about it most tablets I've seen use transreflective screens (you can recognize it visually because when viewed at an angle the LCDs give off a rainbowish light (kind of like looking at a CD)

 

[Tostada]

Really? Sorry ... guess I'm a complete moron

I've seen people using the word "transflective" all the time, and I think they're often referring to the shiny "BrightView"-like screens.

So, do these transflective laptops usually advertize it as such? Are all Apples transflective? Is it even possible to have a transflective screen that also looks good indoors?

 

[ai42]

Originally posted by: Tostada
Really? Sorry ... guess I'm a complete moron

I've seen people using the word "transflective" all the time, and I think they're often referring to the shiny "BrightView"-like screens.

So, do these transflective laptops usually advertize it as such? Are all Apples transflective? Is it even possible to have a transflective screen that also looks good indoors?

Transreflective screens are screens that absorbs ambient light, and reflect it back through the backlight area. So in bright sunny conditions the sunlight will amplify the LCDs brightness back towards the user. 98% of LCDs are not transreflective and wash out in bright light. The slick screens are MVA (under many trademark names by various manufactuers) which is just a filtering technology that allows for better color clarity, and wider viewing angle. AFAIK MVA and transreflective is not compatable with each other.

I do not know if the new Apple laptops are transreflective but I know for a fact that back in the G3 Powerbook days they were.