Turns out our local zombie-infested Apple store was already stocking yesterday's new Santa Rosa-based LED-backlit MacBook Pro-- and so naturally we had to do our own wholly unscientific comparison.

When you work at Tektronix and they make a difficult to refuse offer for their ‘scopes, you obviously grab it. Even if the only one you can afford is the not-so-awesome TDS1012. [Jason Milldrum] got ...

There's been a lot of talk over the past year about LED TVs and how exactly they differ to the current and previous crop of LCD TVs. The big misconception behind the technology is that it's an ...

Backlighting in portable device displays has historically used cold cathode-fluorescent (CCFL) tubes which are difficult to power. The tubes run on alternating current (AC) and need a large initial ...

As lighting topologies have advanced, backlighting technologies have evolved to keep pace. At one time, cold-cathode fluorescent lamps (CCFLs) were the dominant technology for backlighting ...

Japan’s Sanken Electric has developed a new type of cold cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL) backlight for LCD TVs that’s as power-efficient as LED backlights but is supposedly up to 60% cheaper to ...

Sintronic Technology, a Taiwan-based cold-cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL) maker, said it will start pushing CCFLs for 37- and 42-inch panels in the second half of 2006, with samples of 42-inch ...

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CCFL backlights are the most common backlight technology and are used in displays ranging from 5.7 to 23 in. or more diagonal. They can have from one to 24 or more lamps mounted along the edge of the ...