CNET reports MP is EOL

[fox10078]

IMO no one else has picked this story up, makes me think they didn't see this as a legitimate claim.

 

[derbothaus]

In MacLand CNET is not legitimate as they reside in Bill Gates butt.

 

[Just Switched]

I don't believe this rumor. What concerns me is if it is EOL'ed, will apple even let us know or just wait until they run out of stock and not even say anything. Again I don't believe the rumor but if it is true I don't know how apple will handle it.

 

[thekev]

a Matte yellow display.... Great

Yellow like 3 iMacs i swap last year
Yellow like 2 27 inch Apple Cinama Display
Yellow like my iPhone 4s before swapping it out
Yellow like my "new iPad" they ship to me....

Could not believe they dont fix that thing

LG isn't really famous for their quality control. In the cases of Eizo and NEC Europe as I've mentioned before, they tend to bin panels within tighter tolerances for their more expensive lines. Panels in general are extremely mass produced items. Regarding yellow, it's perceptual to a degree. It's affected by panel, level settings, and any adjustments Apple decides to add. If 10 bit sRGB panels were available, that would be the ideal option given the greater ability to tweak the range slightly without causing banding. You would lose a little in black levels and maximum brightness due to the adjustments, but you could get a nice visually neutral D65 match (technically still a bit cool, but if it's well controlled it looks neutral). LG only really makes that in Adobe RGB type panels. That wouldn't work well with LED backlighting. Regarding getting something that resembles a D65 LED target, you can reverse engineer it from a wider gamut panel, but I'm not sure the results are ideal. In displays with an sRGB mode, it usually looks bad. I don't know if building it to such a spec would alleviate this problem.

Pretty sure it's an LG problem though, you can get other monitors that use the same panels and they seem to have the same issues.

LG has a lot of issues. Samsung has panels that don't have the LG issues, but then they have their own issues. In the manufacturing volume seen with such units including any amount of variation in backlight temperature, it's possible to see what looks yellow. Even then, you have to allow warmup time. Most lcd displays take at least 30 minutes to warm up. LED backlighting doesn't change this much. If you're calibrating a display that's more than a year or two old and having difficulty, then I'd give it an hour, and ensure you have your colorimeter plugged in for at least 10 minutes beforehand. Then of course you'd actually need one that works properly with LED.

Don't feel you should have to do this for a neutral display? That's fine.... they all have some measure of tolerance in manufacturing consistency. Then of course they all drift over time, and their color shifts depending on brightness level, and as I mentioned it changes as it warms up. It's not as simple of a problem as you may believe.

That "have to buy " folks can easily buy them up over that several month period without restorting to back-channel-read-the-tea-leaves rumors.

Some of your expressions are awesome. "Read-the-tea-leaves", "with my trusty screwdriver" "dongle farms!".

Just ask yourself at this point which one is going to generate more ad views producing more revenues.

That's how I read these baseless post-mortem articles.

 

[theSeb]

Actually, I see the CNet story as a good sign of new MPs around the corner.

Apple leaks the "rumour". Everyone who has been waiting to see if a refreshed MP is announced decides that the 2010 model is best they're going to get and start buying up the 2010 models. Apple clears the old stock, and then they announce the new MPs.

Could mean anything, but I've noticed that until today there has been a good selection of MPs on the Canadian refurbed site (and since our refurb stock comes from the US I assume that it reflects the same selection, if not the same pricing). Just checked - just two models listed at present, one of which is from July 2009.

I don't believe that it indicates anything, but the UK refurbished store is down to just one 2009 model as well. Normally the 2010 models are available (4 core and 12 core).