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by jlokier 1289 days ago
My Fujitsu-Siemens laptop from 2005 was great in the sun.

The backlight obviously couldn't compete with sunlight, but the LCD behaved transflectively under enough light, so my Emacs session out in a meadow on a bright, sunny day was perfectly readable. That was unexpected. It wasn't an advertised feature. I don't even know if it was deliberate, but it worked great.