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Subject: [Leica] glossy screen iMac problems
From: Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)
Date: Sat Oct 18 06:42:21 2008
References: <467299.49113.qm@web55903.mail.re3.yahoo.com>

I still prefer a CRT, so I don't yet have a Mac laptop or any other Mac 
with a flat screen.

Instead I use a pair of 19 inch CRTs on a Mac G4 and get very 
satisfactory color balance and more realistic saturation.

I do have a Linux based laptop but don't use it for photo stuff.

"Long story short"  - I do hope that it works out for you.

Jim



H. Ball Arche wrote:

> I bought a 24" aluminum iMac a week ago and that evening, as I tried to 
> calibrate the screen I started having problems. I'd pulled up a B&W image 
> in PS and filled the screen with it, and had Apples calibration software 
> window open and dragged to the side. I could'nt get things to work. I 
> opened a full screen white window and saw why: the white point in the 
> center third of the screen was warm, and the left and right thirds were 
> cool - a definite pink to blue shift.
> 
> I took it back the next morning and when they replaced the screen, screen 
> 2 had a blue line running through it. Screen 3 had horizontal bars of 
> uneven luminosity, which the tech people showed me as being evident on all 
> of the iMacs on the floor when a white screen was pulled up. You could 
> probably get away with it working on saturated color stuff, but with B&W 
> it would be very distracting, for me at least.
> 
> Long story short, I'm getting a new/old stock matte screen 24" white iMac, 
> plumped with a full ram upgrade, and $200 bucks back. It should arrive 
> this afternoon, having been overnighted from Louisville.
> 
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