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From: Paul <nospam@needed.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Windows-on-ARM Laptop Is A ?Frequently-Returned Item? On Amazon
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 20:58:02 -0400
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On Mon, 3/24/2025 8:20 PM, rbowman wrote:
> On 24 Mar 2025 18:51:52 GMT, Frank Slootweg wrote:
> 
> 
>>   Backlighting was not an item on my must-have list and I hardly use(d)
>> it and when I used it, it was quite dark, so the silvery finish was not
>> a problem.
> 
> I would never had known there was backlighting except it was on by default 
> on the Acer. I'm trying to remember if I've ever used a computer in the 
> dark or even dim lighting. 
> 

It's better for photography, like if you are recording the screen.

When you have a Secure Boot problem, the two or three lines of status,
they don't stand still. And hitting the Pause/Break key does not work either.
You have to put your camera in video mode, and record the screen that way, and
then find the one frame with the text on it, and use that for a Google search
of what is wrong with your Secure Boot. Turning down the room lights for that,
helps.

*******

I have a $25 Chinese keyboard, and yeah, it has backlight, but the colors
are all wrong. That thing is pretty brutal, as keyboards go.

I just checked it, and the keys are actually double-shot and with a
transparent plastic. Too bad the light source underneath the key,
does not line up with the keycap :-)

   Paul