back-lighting

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The keyboard on the MacBook comes with back-lighting if you chose the higher-end model which I feel is plain wrong.

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  • An increasingly popular method of reducing the power draw in LCD TVs is to replace the CCFL back-lighting system with an array of LEDs.
  • The HDTVs will have a 6ms response time, Sharp's Advanced Super View and Black TFT Panel tech, and will apparently be very energy-efficient, through its dynamic back-lighting and contrast system which also reduces power consumption. —  Gizmodo
  • We used to have the heavy ones in grade school that worked well and I even had my own at home which was a cheap version of a real one but still worked pretty well except for the back-lighting. —  EveryJoe
  • I thought I would want back-lighting, but with even a little bit of light it's pretty easy to read. —  The Gadgeteer
  • Sapphire made sure to bring yards of neon sapphire blue back-lighting, a fluorescent, engraved pompadour-shaped ice-sculpture, plushier (much plush-ier, according to the dancers) leather chairs, new carpeting, a concierge service, and a new chef -- Jayson Margulies from Robert's Steak House at the Penthouse Executive Club. —  The New York Observer -
 

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