Screen Brightness - Outdoors

[kjarrett]

Hi everyone,

I have a T30 now and it is brighter than I remember my T21 was when I went outside with it. Definitely usable in shade. Bright sunlight, I think, will probably wash out just about any LCD.

I'm wondering how much brighter a T42 screen would be, either a 14" or them thar high-falutin' 15"ers, in comparison to my T30.

Thoughts?

TIA,

-kj-

[Flightvector]

My T42 15" Flexview has much greater brightness than my other computers, my Celeron Dell Lattitude (I didn't dare buy this out of my own pocket) with 14.1" looks like it's on battery conservation contrast. But I really can't say it is more than 20% brighter (far from a scientific measurement, feel free to give a different value). I will tell you, however, that it is by far one of the brightest and contrasting laptop LCDs I have ever seen. It is quite close in brightness (may appear brighter, but the Gateway does have a larger output surface area) to my friend's Gateway M675, and that is a 10 pound power hog with dual 3Ghz P4s and a 17" 16:9 LCD for movies. So this means it is a very good screen if the T42 is not a laptop made specifically for media or graphics processing (where a great screen is absolutely necessary despite power consumption).