Comment Umm, peripheral vision? (Score 1) 92
I'm having a really, really, hard time seeing the case for transparency in a screen this small. Sure, if a screen is going to dominate your field of view there are cases where you might need to consider how the stuff onscreen is going to coexist with the rest of the world(though many more where the point is that your screen is dominating your field of view because you are working/gaming/watching a movie and not looking to be interrupted); but this isn't that screen.
Even your 17in 'desktop replacement'/'mobile workstation' monster just doesn't occupy that much of your field of view; especially when you can just tilt it down a trifle if you want it out of the way. I'm having a hard time seeing the virtues of totally ruining the quality of the screen space you do have in order to retain visibility of such a relatively small space that you can easily inspect at will just by moving your head.
Even your 17in 'desktop replacement'/'mobile workstation' monster just doesn't occupy that much of your field of view; especially when you can just tilt it down a trifle if you want it out of the way. I'm having a hard time seeing the virtues of totally ruining the quality of the screen space you do have in order to retain visibility of such a relatively small space that you can easily inspect at will just by moving your head.