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by Animats 493 days ago
From the picture, it has the low-contrast look of an older E-ink display. Here's a higher-contrast E-ink display.[1]

There are also emissive display laptops brighter than 1000 nits, which is about where they become sunlight-readable. Battery life might be a problem.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GKVM94N1F6E

3 comments

The lower contrast is because it's not e-ink (with the very slow refresh times that implies). It's something more like an LCD.
For values of "something like" strongly approaching "actually is a transflective LCD".

<https://www.androidpolice.com/origins-daylight-dc-1-with-cre...>

Yes, my take on this has always been, "Trying to outbright the sun with a battery-powered device is _not_ a brilliant approach." which is why I've always preferred transflective displays (and despair of replacing my Fujitsu Stylistic ST-4110 which was one of my most favourite computers, and probably the longest-lived --- still boot it up occasionally to use a scanner, and I'd use it for more if an 800MHz Pentium could cope with today's JavaScript on today's Web...)
MacBook pro M4 with a low-glare display and 1600 nits iirc works OK outdoors but still doesn't get close to eink in my opinion.