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

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Subject: [Leica] glossy screen iMac problems
From: dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings)
Date: Fri Oct 17 04:49:53 2008
References: <467299.49113.qm@web55903.mail.re3.yahoo.com>

Thanks for this.

It's time for me to update my work-machine at home and I've been
wondering about the screens.

What is the experience of their laptops screens? Anyone with some experience?

Daniel


On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 1:36 PM, H. Ball Arche <h_arche@yahoo.com> 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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