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Question re Laptops!!
Question re Laptops!!
by Wilkieboy » Sat Mar 10, 2018 11:15 am
Does anyone know the best way to use a laptop outside so that you can still see the screen without it being made almost invisible by the sun? (Similar to how a Kindle Paper White performs)
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Re: Question re Laptops!!
by marcliff » Sat Mar 10, 2018 11:22 am
Sit under a brolly.
You can increase the brightness of the screen but it means your battery life will be seriously diminished.
Get a laptop "hood".
As all laptops now use a gloss screen as opposed to a matte one (they were expensive and easily damaged) it's difficult to cut down glare.
You can increase the brightness of the screen but it means your battery life will be seriously diminished.
Get a laptop "hood".
As all laptops now use a gloss screen as opposed to a matte one (they were expensive and easily damaged) it's difficult to cut down glare.
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Re: Question re Laptops!!
by PeteKnight » Sat Mar 10, 2018 12:21 pm
The Kindle Paperwhite works outdoors because it has a screen that’s specifically designed to function that way whilst using little or no battery power.
The downside to the Paperwhite screen is that it’s high contract black and white and it takes around 1 second to refresh the image on the screen.
Laptops have screens that can be refreshed around 60 times per second and can display millions of colours. Of course the down side is that they aren’t as good in direct sunlight and use much more battery power.
It’s horses for courses, and very easy for the Kindle when it has just one role in life.
You’ll find that good quality tablets tend to perform better in sunlight than laptops, and it’s a bit easier to move the tablet around to reduce the glare, but you’ll never get the same readability in sunlight that you do with the Kindle.
Pete.
The downside to the Paperwhite screen is that it’s high contract black and white and it takes around 1 second to refresh the image on the screen.
Laptops have screens that can be refreshed around 60 times per second and can display millions of colours. Of course the down side is that they aren’t as good in direct sunlight and use much more battery power.
It’s horses for courses, and very easy for the Kindle when it has just one role in life.
You’ll find that good quality tablets tend to perform better in sunlight than laptops, and it’s a bit easier to move the tablet around to reduce the glare, but you’ll never get the same readability in sunlight that you do with the Kindle.
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Re: Question re Laptops!!
by jpeg » Sat Mar 10, 2018 2:00 pm
Nothing to stop you replacing the screen with a matte one they are freely available
or you can still buy plenty of new laptops with matte screens see link
https://www.productchart.com/laptops/sets/1
or you can still buy plenty of new laptops with matte screens see link
https://www.productchart.com/laptops/sets/1
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