You've been in the industry a decade yet you called him a "graphics designer." It's graphic, not graphics. If you're getting paid 100 an hour to call them "graphics designers" then you're being grossly overpaid. Exasperated is right - you don't know what you're talking about. Production work doesn't have to cost millions of dollars to be "real." That's just stupidity speaking. $100/hour stupidity. And your enormously over-inflated ego. Get over yourself, you're coming off as anything but professional.
I'm surprised you think of this as news.Save your fake outrage for next time.Please don't whine about dithering when you couldn't even tell the difference in the first place.
The glare is caused by the glass. It's mirror-like. I used to have the glossy early 2007 model and had no problems using it out in the sun, etc. On my 2009 model, I have to double the brightness to see it as clear as the 2007 model, because of the reflections. I'm extremely disappointed, but have to have OS X, and my old laptop no longer works.
Lot of you are missing the point here... yeah he could have shopped smarter and done more research and yes there are good points made about why he would doing design work on a 13" laptop as well - I get the love for the smaller machine, I use the smallest laptops I can get while maintaining functionality, but I'm an administrator, not a designer... really don't care how many colours are true and how many are dithered when I'm looking at a 2 colour console ;).HOWEVER... the point where apple makes its mistake is claiming support for millions of colours when this technically isn't true. They could have explained it to him over the phone how they dither their way to millions, but instead they chose to give no info, locked him out and wouldn't give the specs of his machine to him. Thats terrible customer service. Granted they offered to refund his purchase price which is good but what they need to do is be clear from the start about whats in their machines.For example.. if they put 'displays millions of colours*' and added some vaguely user-friendly explanation of dithering in the fine print, general users would not care.. the people who did would appreciate being told and make their decision with that in mind - problem solved.
balk2kJul 5, 2009
So you're saying that they switched TO 8-bit IPS and got rid of the excess TN stock and now every MBP should have an 8-bit screen?
Closed AccountJul 9, 2009
<a class="user" href="http://i32.tinypic.com/ra3i1f.png">http://i32.tinypic.com/ra3i1f.png</a>It's been that way since I got it in Dec 2006
scrattJul 9, 2009
Bottom line. Get over it. Or go buy a f**king PeeCee.
ez12aJul 12, 2009
No, all macbooks and macbook pros still use 6 bit displays. IPS displays would bump the price up considerably. Re-read your macrumor forums.
fredfredricksonJul 14, 2009
iMacs are s**t.
jpesciJul 14, 2009
You've been in the industry a decade yet you called him a "graphics designer." It's graphic, not graphics. If you're getting paid 100 an hour to call them "graphics designers" then you're being grossly overpaid. Exasperated is right - you don't know what you're talking about. Production work doesn't have to cost millions of dollars to be "real." That's just stupidity speaking. $100/hour stupidity. And your enormously over-inflated ego. Get over yourself, you're coming off as anything but professional.
primalJul 16, 2009
My $700 HP laptop has an 8bit screen. There isn't a reason that Apple hasn't stepped up their game in this area. LED backlighting can only do so much.
revsd5Jul 19, 2009
I'm surprised you think of this as news.Save your fake outrage for next time.Please don't whine about dithering when you couldn't even tell the difference in the first place.
samssfJul 22, 2009
The glare is caused by the glass. It's mirror-like. I used to have the glossy early 2007 model and had no problems using it out in the sun, etc. On my 2009 model, I have to double the brightness to see it as clear as the 2007 model, because of the reflections. I'm extremely disappointed, but have to have OS X, and my old laptop no longer works.
sparcryptAug 27, 2009
Lot of you are missing the point here... yeah he could have shopped smarter and done more research and yes there are good points made about why he would doing design work on a 13" laptop as well - I get the love for the smaller machine, I use the smallest laptops I can get while maintaining functionality, but I'm an administrator, not a designer... really don't care how many colours are true and how many are dithered when I'm looking at a 2 colour console ;).HOWEVER... the point where apple makes its mistake is claiming support for millions of colours when this technically isn't true. They could have explained it to him over the phone how they dither their way to millions, but instead they chose to give no info, locked him out and wouldn't give the specs of his machine to him. Thats terrible customer service. Granted they offered to refund his purchase price which is good but what they need to do is be clear from the start about whats in their machines.For example.. if they put 'displays millions of colours*' and added some vaguely user-friendly explanation of dithering in the fine print, general users would not care.. the people who did would appreciate being told and make their decision with that in mind - problem solved.