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Originally Posted by tompe
I thought you meant direct sun light. If you meant direct sunlight I am very interesting in knowing what type of screen you have since at work we do some flight tests outside when the sun is shining directly at the screen and it is totally hopeless to use a laptop in these conditions.
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Yes,direct sunlight!
When I use my laptop outside in the shadows on a sunny day, the backlight provides enough light to make me see the screen's content. (I'm using an old Vaio VGN-C190G here as example).
When the sun is shining at it's fullest, and I'm sitting outside in the sun, it's a bit harder to read, because I don't have enough brightness to see things clearly.
But when I turn myself so that the sun shines over my shoulder on the screen, then I don't even need any LCD back light to be able to read my text.
The sun literally shines in my LCD, and doing that gives you about the same as playing a gameboy SP, palmtop or calculator.
It's less good for pictures or movies, since many colors area bit green/yellow/grey faded.
Also make sure the sunlight does not directly reflect on the LCD in your eyes, because that would blind you.. (and then you won't read anything at all anymore [
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I angle my screen so that the reflection of the sunrays bounce anywhere except in my eyes,but just as long as the sun's shining on my LCD screen I can see things clearly.
I suspect you can do this nearly with every laptop with a reflective (non anti-glare) screen.
I estimate that an LCD screen with an anti-glare filter will not allow you to see things very easy at all in direct sunlight; but I've never actually tried it out yet.
You also must not have touchscreen or any film over the screen,since that would only blur the image more.