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I have some kind of "flickering sensitivity" (if this is a thing). I bought a retina MBP about 4-5 years ago and I had to return it because it was killing me. A
by 6t6t6t6 8y ago
I have some kind of "flickering sensitivity" (if this is a thing). I bought a retina MBP about 4-5 years ago and I had to return it because it was killing me. After 30 minutes watching the screen, I had terrible headaches and my vision was becoming blury for the next hours.
Now I have a new (2017) MBP and I don't have any problem anymore, so I guess that they improved the technology somehow.
- sathackr 8y agoPlasma TVs do it to me also. It used to drive me nuts to go into a Best Buy and look at a wall of plasma TVs. Looking up the retina displays, I see they are either IPS or OLED. The IPS likely has an LED backlight, and OLED is...LED. So a flicker is possible if they used PWM to limit the current to the LEDs. Did you notice any change in the effect at different brightness levels?
- shaggerty 8y agoThe only Apple device with an OLED screen is the iPhone X; the built-in displays on the 2012-2015 retina MacBook Pros as well as the ones made after the 2016 redesign are IPS with a 60hz refresh rate. There were issues with the graphics on the mid 2012 to early 2013 retina MacBook Pros - perhaps the parent got one of the defective models.
- dingo_bat 8y ago> The only Apple device with an OLED screen is the iPhone X I think the iWatch also has an OLED panel.
- shaggerty 8y agoAll three of them do! I'm not sure how it slipped my mind. Thankfully, Cunningham's Law [1]. [1]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law