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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
I caught the pro-e-ink line about "reflecting light, not emitting light" being best, and I'll simply point out that many people have no problem with backlit LCD screens.
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I think what he's getting at is the fact that backlighting is one of the biggest power drains in any portable device, with the screen itself coming in somewhere around number two. Eliminate backlighting or have a way to turn it all the way off when you don't need it, and you save a ton of power.
Then again, my first laptops were passive- matrix devices whose backlight could be turned on and off, and you didn't need a backlight all the time the way the new TFT and later screens do. In bright light you could turn the backlight off and the screen was very readable, almost as good as an e-ink device. Some nameless PC one that ran on two floppies, and a PowerBook 180. They also got about two hours' battery life on a NiMH battery, which is still as good as some modern laptops get with LIon ones.