Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/10/17

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Subject: [Leica] glossy screen iMac problems
From: h_arche at yahoo.com (H. Ball Arche)
Date: Fri Oct 17 04:36:41 2008

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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