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

[grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey at mchsi.com)]

If your talking about the macbook laptops you can use on airplanes, by 
turning off the wireless feature.


gene  -------------- Original message from Mark Rabiner <mark at 
rabinergroup.com>: --------------


> 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 
> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group 
> > Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:57:05 -0400
> > To: Leica Users Group 
> > 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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