[Leica] Rab's 12" Powerbook G4 monitor darks are darkening

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

Looks like I win a new computer!!!!!
Welcome to the second decade of the new millennium Rabs!

Those iMac's you can't work them in the airplane but you could work them in
a motel room could you not? Be much better for Photoshop and or video?
The ones which look like monitors but are really computers?


Mark William Rabiner



> From: Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:57:05 -0400
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Conversation: Rab's 12" Powerbook G4 monitor darks are darkening
> Subject: [Leica] Rab's 12" Powerbook G4 monitor darks are darkening
> 
> I think I'll have a large order of prognosis negative!
> 
> My 12" Powerbook G4 monitor darks are darkening
> First it only happened after a restart.
> Then an hour later it would be back or over night.
> 
> My PowerBook G4 12 inch with has been more important to me than my shoes 
> for
> three and a half years.
> I took it out on the road on my big trip out here working from countless
> motels - Crunching and editing my pix from the days moving east on non
> interstates.  Before that it had moved my but from office to the end of
> kitchen table.. It would print in the next room. My office. Airport.
> 
> The only problem is the darker areas.
> They're too dark.
> The mid and light areas look fine.
> 
> That has not stopped me from Photoshopping  a slew of pictures which, when 
> I
> look at later, and when other people look at them;
> Have washed out blacks.
> No bottom.
> 
> When I got into the display preferences I see I've tried in the past to 
> come
> up with other saved "calibrations" but they were all funny.
> So I've been using Color LCD 1 all this time.
> Which is the same as Color LCD
> The in effect preferences.
> The advanced set of controls REALLY get me in trouble with funny looking
> images on my screen and the non advanced don't do much of anything.
> 
> By the way the battery is out.
> And that could be it. I use the thing plugged in but maybe having a working
> battery brightens up its day. Its always some really odd dumb thing like
> that I'm off to the apple store in Soho to meet up at the Genius Bar in an
> hour.
> I'm going to ask them straight off for the meaning of life;
> And I have a feeling he or she's not going to know its 42.
> Nor the smart way to deal with this monitor problem which will drive me
> crazy before it puts me out of business.
> 
> I know heres a socket on  the side for an exterior monitor and those are
> pretty cheap.
> But that's a quick fix just like my exterior CD burner is now.
> I need to be operatable in a Motel room just like the old days.
> Though I'd settle for right here at my desk.
> 
> I very much real soon like tonight need to tweak some pix which I knew are
> too dark.
> But it will be very tricky as they've looked perfect on my monitor for 
> three
> days now. I got a glimpse of what they look like washed out before I had to
> do a restart and the screen has never returned to normal brightness.
> So in 33 minutes I bring it to the apple genius in SoHo.
> 
> 
> 
> Mark William Rabiner
> 
> Nothing can hurt us now. What we have can't be destroyed. That's our 
> victory
> - our victory over the dark.
> 
> from "Dark Victory"
> ... Davis, Bogart, Brent.
>     oh and R. Reagan!
> 
>  Moving to Vermont are you? What do you do there in between yawns?
> 
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