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Originally Posted by dwanthny
You all should enjoy the fact that you currently have a choice. My daughter reads on her Eee PC with the back light turned down.
Learned viewing habits can help computer/office workers tolerate a backlit screen and help reduce eye strain but to "generally ascribe" eye strain to bad viewing habits is a stretch. Various studies report that between 50 to 90% of computer workers report eye strain.
The bottom line though is at this point in your life eye strain doesn't affect you so enjoy the fact that you have a choice in what you use and stop trivializing the affect it has on many others. As you get older the odds are that you will experience eye strain at one time or another.  |
Not especially likely. By the time fluorescent tube flashing becomes a serious nuisance for me, assuming I have poor enough habits to permit it to become so, and assuming I live that long, I will not own any flashing backlight devices...they'll be LED-lit or OLED or some other technology that does not strobe close to the limit of human perception. I did acknowledge that some people do have a sensitivity, just as some people do have varying degrees of lactose intolerance (common where I live, but that does not scare me away from milk products), or perhaps photosensitive epilepsy. I however consider it closer to RSIs, which is more behavioral in nature, and often caused by poor habits, perhaps exacerbated by environments and products that, when used without common sense, promote bad habits. Not everyone needs an ergonomic split modified dvorak keyboard. Those who do will often say it's the normal keyboards that gave them CTS.
FWIW, I like reading on my eeePC. It's far from ideal, and it sucks in bright sunlight, but it's otherwise pretty usable. The keyboard on it is pretty usable too, without any RSI issues, despite its small size and relatively stupid placement of the right shift key.