Remember the displays on devices like this
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or this?
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These devices may be out of date, but one outstanding quality of their displays was that they were highly visible day and night.
During the middle of the day, wouldn't it be great to use your laptop with it with the screen facing the sun and reflecting its full brightness, like a piece of paper? Our screens are fancier nowadays yet we still can't do that.
Instead, we currently have to:
- Face the laptop away from the light or otherwise block out the light
- Spend extra electricity to light up the screen
- Calibrate the light to match the color temperature of the ambient light
This design is simply a call to having non-permanently-backlit LCD technology in laptops, in order to:
- Allow laptops displays to be more readable in bright light conditions
- Extend the battery life of laptops in bright light conditions
- Make it easier for people their laptops as single-purpose tools such as e-readers, notebooks, weather displays, etc.
- Reduce eyestrain when using laptops
The technology is there, it is cheap and extremely battery-efficient, and it is literally decades old. Please bring it back.