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Originally Posted by maceyr
I'm not sure if this is such as smart thing to do. Most times, you just have to turn off the backlight when in bright sunlight and you should be able to "see" what's on the screen if at an angle.
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In the sunlight, true... but we're not always in bright sunlight. When looking at a colour display, you almost always (except as you noted, at an angle in the sun) need a backlight of some sort to use it. I remember an old IBM laptop I played around with when I was young (like... 11), which had no backlight (burned out). The display was very close to being totally unusable. I ended up taking it apart for the fun of it, since I didn't have an extra monitor lying around at that time.
Monochrome displays, however, as seen with old Palm models, are almost completely usable without a backlight - you only need some sort of front-light (a flashlight, a ceiling light, the sun, whatever) to read it. I'd much rather have that when I'm looking up an e-mail address or reading a book, at the greatly reduced power consumption, than a full-colour backlight display.