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I purchased my first mac last year ( a white macbook, right before the new unibody models came out). The screen on the thing is a piece of dung. Gradients loo
by proee 17y ago
I purchased my first mac last year ( a white macbook, right before the new unibody models came out).
The screen on the thing is a piece of dung. Gradients look terrible.
My acer travelmate from the days of the dinosaurs even has a better screen.
I enjoyed reading about this guys little quest and it's one of the reasons I prefer to keep my distance from Apple.
- moe 17y agoMacBook screens have been crap for as long as I can remember, since the days when they were selling PowerBooks and iBooks, long before the first iPod. I have no idea why the "demanding" Apple audience let's them get away with that but the panels on these things have always had lower contrast and (sometimes ridiculously) lower viewing angles than comparable notebooks, e.g. the sony vaios. I've done plenty side-by-side comparisons and both problems are fairly obvious even to the untrained eye. For example the RGB color #fefefe is generally indistinguishable from white on MacBook displays. Some of our designers refer to them as WashyBooks and spend time to make sure their palettes are "WashyBook safe".
- bodhi 17y agoI suspect that would be a gamma difference with OSX, not an artifact of the screen quality. If you look at windows computers, the lighter greys are generally a bit darker than the same colour on a mac.
- jomohke 17y agoApple is changing this in Snow Leopard: The default gamma will be the same as windows.
- thenduks 17y agoIn that case you will need to stay away from all laptop manufacturers that use LG-Phillips panels.