I did a little surgery to the laptop's screen tonight and found out that
unfortunately, even if I managed to get a different inverter to fit in
there, there actually no room in the assembly for a second lamp on the
other side of the screen.  Bummer, I was actually hoping that was
eventually going to be what I needed to do.

Worse case scenario I could get one of these new 7 inch lcd monitors since
the laptop does have a video port, but it's like $200+ for each one of
those (have not tried ebay yet).

I may just have to live with the glare or at least try the anti-glare
films suggestion from Josh.

-Mario

> Funny you mention that now - my laptop LCD (a great one BTW - 1400x1050
> - already had a CCFL lamp repair) just died on me while in the car. Lamp
> brightness was too low (minimum? maybe less), then flashed on full or
> brighter for a couple of seconds, then nothing. Now I can _only_ see it
> if light hits it at the right angle. Time to investigate...
>
> By the way, changing the CCFL lamp in a laptop isn't a big deal (as long
> as you can actually get to it - you might have to remove lots of
> pieces). You might be able to find one with a higher rating and replace
> the inverter to go with it, or hack it to work with two lamps (maybe on
> either side of the screen). The specifics depend on the
> inverter/CCFL/screen design, but if all you want to change is lighting
> it can be done.
>
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