BenQ ScreenBar Lite Hands-On Review: An e-Reading lamp designed for laptops

[Redaktion]

BenQ has designed the ScreenBar Lite for people that do not like relying on their laptop backlights. The lamp is rather pricey at US$99.00 though, so is it worth it? Read on in this hands-on review to find out why we keep returning it, despite its cost.

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[_MT_]

Perhaps the only thing I like about keyboards with RGB backlight is that I can set them to orange. That colour works great for me. Whether it's a keyboard or a dashboard in a car. White is rather annoying. Especially cold, harsh white. Warm, yellowish tone is not bad.

You should swap the pictures in the section about light/ white temperature. Lower temperature (lower number in kelvin) represents warmer, yellowish white. Higher temperature gives you colder white. Your article suggests the opposite (showing cold white with 2700 K in the description under it and warm white with 6500 K in the description). It might seem counter intuitive, but that's because we're mixing two concepts that use similar language. When we're saying warm white, we're not referring to the temperature in kelvin but to the tone and yellow is considered a warm colour while blue is considered a cold colour.

[Alex Alderson]

Perhaps the only thing I like about keyboards with RGB backlight is that I can set them to orange. That colour works great for me. Whether it's a keyboard or a dashboard in a car. White is rather annoying. Especially cold, harsh white. Warm, yellowish tone is not bad.

You should swap the pictures in the section about light/ white temperature. Lower temperature (lower number in kelvin) represents warmer, yellowish white. Higher temperature gives you colder white. Your article suggests the opposite (showing cold white with 2700 K in the description under it and warm white with 6500 K in the description). It might seem counter intuitive, but that's because we're mixing two concepts that use similar language. When we're saying warm white, we're not referring to the temperature in kelvin but to the tone and yellow is considered a warm colour while blue is considered a cold colour.

Oh yeah, my bad.

The arrangement of the pictures was confusing.

Thanks

[S.Yu]

I have the original WiT from Benq, nice design, build (the flexible yet stable arm/joints are very important to keep the lamp out of the way but the illuminated area whereever you want it to be) and quality of illumination (except the peak brightness seems to deteriorate to about 70% in a matter of months before stabilizing, and the minimum brightness is not nearly low enough). Also it's quite expensive at nearly twice the price of this model even with discounts yielding lowest price of the year.
The plasticky successors e.g. WiT Duo IMO are not worth the money, since the design, build, and finish takes a huge hit without a proportionate price drop, or was it actually a price increase...