Being in the park kinda loses its lustre when you've got a headset strapped to your face - I'd prefer a laptop with a screen that's still visible in sunlight.

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cadamsdotcom 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah I’d go a sunglasses-like setup - preferably driven by my phone. But big tech companies have yet to take a shine to that use case.

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thaumasiotes 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> I'd prefer a laptop with a screen that's still visible in sunlight.

I don't understand why Amazon worked so hard to replace their neutral gray Kindles with "Kindle PaperWhite".

Paper, the material, is so white that trying to read it in sunlight will hurt your eyes. Why would you want a white reading surface instead of a gray one?

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seba_dos1 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The main shtick of Kindle Paperwhite, aside of the obvious ability to read in the dark, is not how white it is but rather how it can remove shadows when outside or in brightly lit rooms. You don't really notice this effect until you disable backlight and suddenly can notice the shadows cast by your fingers.

	▲	thaumasiotes 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> aside of the obvious ability to read in the dark My Kindle Keyboard came with a case that hooked into it to draw power for a nice, orange booklight. It was a much better reading-in-bed experience than the Kindle Oasis with its uniform glow. :(

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danudey 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's not actually paper-white, though, thankfully. It's more just 'not as dingy gray'