Re: Dark or darker display

2016-04-24 Thread James Cameron
On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 05:53:19PM -0700, Hal Murray wrote: > qu...@laptop.org said: > > The XO-4 display has a much brighter backlight. It proved > > impossible to find such dark LEDs as used to exist. I was hasty. Let me restate that. Some XO-1.75 and many XO-4, especially those produced

Re: Dark or darker display

2016-04-24 Thread Hal Murray
qu...@laptop.org said: > The XO-4 display has a much brighter backlight. It proved impossible to > find such dark LEDs as used to exist. Do they take more power or are they more efficient? -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. ___ Devel

Dark or darker display

2016-04-24 Thread James Cameron
Check the backlight cable. A darker than normal display is usually caused by backlight cable not properly inserted, in turn caused by shipping or incomplete latch closure. The XO-4 display has a much brighter backlight. It proved impossible to find such dark LEDs as used to exist. -- James

Re: [UKids] re:new member

2016-04-24 Thread Martin Langhoff
As Sam says xo-1 screens will work on xo-4 touch units. Disassembly and reassembly of xo4 touch around the screen is delicate, careful with the touchscreen data cable. Over time we made small changes to the LCD screen but they don't make a big difference. They all fit all production units. hth,

Re: [UKids] re:new member

2016-04-24 Thread Samuel Greenfeld
The XO-4 is the only XO to have been officially sold with a touchscreen option. XO-4s use the same screen as other XOs, but with an independent infrared touchscreen on top of it. There were some XO-1.75s that were modified to have more traditional touchscreens to help with Sugar & XO-4 touch

Re: [UKids] re:new member

2016-04-24 Thread Adam Holt
On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 9:07 AM, Dave Crossland wrote: > > On 24 April 2016 at 07:34, Xo Tom wrote: > >> [I also use the xo4 indoors in black/white mode because for longer texts >> reading and writing the monochrome display is more convenient than >> conventional