[ltp] T23 and eye strain

[Lenz Grimmer]

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Hi,

On 07/15/2008 08:48 AM, Anze Slosar wrote:

> The main degradation of an LCD is its backlight - image gets dimmer and=

> dimmer. This can be accompanied by some color and brightness shift, but=
 no
> flicker or other kind of eye-straining behaviour.

I can confirm this - I have a T42 where the display backlight has started=
 to
exhibit a strong red tint and has significantly lost brightness. The tint=

disappears after a certain "warm-up" time, but the display is still very =
dim.

> So, probably you're suffering just from degraded brightness / contrast.=
 The
> timescales for this are 2-3 years or so (for example, I could easily us=
e my
> X40 outside when it was new and now this is no-way on a sunny day).

Same here - this laptop is now 4 years old. Not sure if it's worth trying=
 to
replace the backlight itself...

Bye,
	LenZ
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