August 3, 2007 08:22
Quote:... I use the Mac in my catamaran's very bright bridgedeck cabin, with GPSNavX always on.
You might consider an alternative strategy. Wait till the next hardware revision to the Mac Mini. Install the maximum RAM it will take. Buy one of the sunlight readable screens available for the Mac.
Those screens keep getting better and cheaper.
In thinking about a sunlight readable screen, remember, if you can, the display of the original Mac portable. The brighter the sunlight, the better that gray scale display looked. Why was that? because the screen display was reflective.
Things progressed, and a good looking screen with transmissive screens became the normal display. A transmissive display depends on a fluorescent light source, more recently an LCD light source, in the back of the display to overpower the ambient light in the room around the display.
Look at the display of your newer cell phone. In the sunlight it is barely readable, the light in the screen is not powerful enough.
Your old cell phone, if you had one, might have had a transmissive display that you could easily read in the bright daylight.
Bottom line is this: You either look for a display with a very bright back light or better yet, look for the displays which combine back lighting with reflective display.
One that comes to mind is
http://argonautcomputer.com/
Anybody on the list know of any other reflective that might be better and or cheaper?
John
Things change.
Try to cope