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Are ALL new SR Macbook screens washed out?

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herbiehancock00

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Dec 14, 2007
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I just got my new SR Macbook and the screen sucks compared to what I saw at the store. I'm not sure whether the model at the store is non-SR or not. My question is, are all SR Macbook screens washed out or did I get a lemon?
 
I'm gonna hope that not all have screen issues but most do

It's easy to fix though

1) Download a profile (I use one called David's Profile)
2) Go to Universal Access and turn contrast up by 2 clicks
 
I calibrated mine and it looks great. My husband has a non Santa Rosa and ours looks about the same. Mine is a touch brighter though.
 
Wow, I am so glad this thread came out...

I just thought the washed out look was normal for the MacBooks.

Now I adjusted the contrast one half of the first line (I did Control+Option+Command+ the period key three times)

It looks TERRIFIC now!

Thanks!

:)
 
i just downloaded davids color profile & placed it in my library/colorsync/profiles/displays folder. I have verified it is there. When I to go displays>color I can older see the default display color lcd but not David's any ideas?
thanks
 
balwx said:
i just downloaded davids color profile & placed it in my library/colorsync/profiles/displays folder. I have verified it is there. When I to go displays>color I can older see the default display color lcd but not David's any ideas?
thanks
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It might be like this...
[1]
Make sure it looks like this...
[2]
 

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thanks for the quick reply.


in the first picture, my display profile says 'Color LCD'. It seems that the profile I downloaded is not displayed in this window. In my 'displays' folder, both icc files are listed though.:(
 
Thanks quillz. The profile is listed as 'looks good' or something similar when I expand the setting as you described in picture 2. Thanks again. I can already detect the difference.:)
 
I calibrated the screen using Supercal and it looks much better now. Although it does look a little skewed towards the blue side, but contrast improved quite a bit.
 
I haven't seen the new SR macbook screens yet so I can't really comment. How can they be worse than the old ones?
 
queshy said:
I haven't seen the new SR macbook screens yet so I can't really comment. How can they be worse than the old ones?
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What's wrong with the old ones? I have a just-pre-SR black macbook and the only issue I have with it is a pretty awful up/down viewing angle. But this is something I've found with all laptops, so I dont have a problem with it.
 
I calibrated a few hours ago and this is what i came up with

Enjoy
 

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Got my new MB on the 20th. Beautiful. Up-adjusted the contrast and it looks great. Maybe I am not that picky...yet, but I sure do appreciate all of you being so helpful on here.

I will bookmark the zip file with the color profile for use later.

Thanks everybody!
 
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