MacBook Pro, Thousands of Colors
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MacBook Pro, Thousands of Colors
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#2PITA dealing with Apple on this, and the screens should indeed do what they advertise.
Still, since you already knew about 6-bit vs 8-bit issues, why did you not look in the store before buying? The dithering is visible to the careful eye just by looking for it on my 13" Macbook (white, plastic, relatively cheap).
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#3I'm not sure what this guy is looking for. Regardless of whether the display is 6-bit, or just 8-bit that looks crap, you're still going to have a problem. Unless you're harboring a fantasy that Apple will give you a MacBook with a custom screen as way of an apology.
They've offered you a refund. Take the money and use it to buy the 15" MacBook with a better screen. And this time try checking out the product to make sure it meets your needs before splashing down thousands of dollars.
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#4I'm not sure what this guy is looking for. Regardless of whether the display is 6-bit, or just 8-bit that looks crap, you're still going to have a problem. Unless you're harboring a fantasy that Apple will give you a MacBook with a custom screen as way of an apology. They've offered you a refund. Take the money and use it to buy the 15" MacBook with a better screen. And this time try checking out the product to make…
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Re: MacBook Pro, Thousands of Colors
#5I'm not sure what this guy is looking for. Regardless of whether the display is 6-bit, or just 8-bit that looks crap, you're still going to have a problem. Unless you're harboring a fantasy that Apple will give you a MacBook with a custom screen as way of an apology. They've offered you a refund. Take the money and use it to buy the 15" MacBook with a better screen. And this time try checking out the product to make…
I think the point he is making is that if someone were to check the only information available, "millions of colors" on apple's website, is false.
EDIT: and as a side quest, he is trying to get them to admit that their pro product doesn't have pro specs.
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#6Surprising hardware spec choice given the the market penetration Apple has in the design profession.
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#7[...] They offered to give me a full refund of my purchase. I suppose this would be fine, if I could go to another Apple retail store and purchase a portable machine of this size that had an 8bit screen. [...]
Here's where I stopped reading. I, too, would like a pony.
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#8Alternate headline choice: Man with ability to research decides not to and is disappointed in purchase but offered full refund
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#9He mentions a couple of times about dithering, saying it is "blending nearby colors". I have heard notebook displays also use temporal dithering where they quickly change the color of single pixel and your eye merges it into an intermediate value. (strictly speaking, blending nearby colors could refer to nearby in time, but I think he was refering to spatially nearby)
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#10I'm not sure what this guy is looking for. Regardless of whether the display is 6-bit, or just 8-bit that looks crap, you're still going to have a problem. Unless you're harboring a fantasy that Apple will give you a MacBook with a custom screen as way of an apology. They've offered you a refund. Take the money and use it to buy the 15" MacBook with a better screen. And this time try checking out the product to make…
You didn't read the article. He would be glad to upgrade to the 15" MacBook but Apple will not tell him if it's a true 8-bit display.
He's simply wants the TRUE specs on the machine.