Re: Portable TFT colour displays

[vagrant@vpnet.chi.il.us (Guy Umbright)]

Brian Tao (taob@r-node.hub.org) wrote:
:     At a recent trade show, I saw one of those 486 laptops with a colour
: TFT (thin-film transistor?) display.  I was completely unprepared for
: the brightness, sharpness and speed of display!  Laptops displays always
: had a bad reputation with me, but this TFT thing blew all that to bits. 
: Ghosting is completely absent, the colours are vibrant and solid, each
: pixel is clear and sharp.  The viewing angle was as close to 90 degrees
: as I could determine (compare this to the Powerbook 165c's passive
: display... 20 degrees or so?)  Lighting wasn't particularly optimal at
: the show, but even fine text was readable at any angle.  A 640x480x256
: colour display was the size of the display area of my RGB monitor and
: about a centimeter thick.

:     Now, I desperately want one of those for my GS.  :)  I don't mind
: lugging my system to user group meetings, computer shows, SIG's, etc.,
: but this RGB monitor *really* weighs things down (not to mention taking
: up half the space in my trunk).  If I could get one of these displays
: which can take a GS RGB signal, I'd be in heaven.  :)  How much do one
: of these screens cost?  The laptop itself cost $3999 (486/33, 120 meg
: hard drive, 4 megs of RAM).  I'd use this over my RGB monitor any day.

The last article I read about them stated they are very expensive because
they are very difficult to make.  The production yield on them is very low.
Give it time though, as with anything else, eventually they will figure
out a good production method.
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