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>" I can't say definitively (I've never compared head-up), but it
>seems to me that the Powerbook TFT's are considerably brighter. In my
>experience, the IBM screen is big--but not very bright (even with full
>non-powersaving mode). I've even had people mistake my TFT for a
>dual-scan... :("
>
>This is peculiar, I am looking at the two screens side by side, and the
>IBM screen is far brighter to my eye. In fact it is on the Power book that
>I cannot tell any difference between the dual scan and TFT (I know this
>because we debated which to buy a while ago, and chose the TFT, but not
>on the basis of brightness, where it made no difference but rahter on
>the basis of angle of view and speed, where of course the TFT has an
>advantage.
>
>Now this of course is for the 755's. THe 701 screen is considerably less
>bright, probably to help with the crummy battery in the 701.
I have a 755C and a PB540C, and to me, the PB540C is brighter when both
units are running off of battery. When both are plugged in, they seem, at
best, the same. As for Dual Scan vs. TFT, the DS screen on the 520C had
some slight streaking IMHO vs. zero streaking on the 540C TFT display.
........Hapless victim of Information Overload Syndrome (IOS).......
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