Has Anyone Noticed Banding, Dirty Screen or Color Uniformity Issues on 14 - 16 inch Macbook Pro ?

[emraha06]

As you know some displays have banding (pattern), dirty screen or color uniformity issueand some Pro Display XDR users suffered from this before. Has anyone detected these kind of issues on m1 pro/max 14 - 16 inches macbook pro?

Here is an example for this issue: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/pro-display-xdr-dirty-screen-effect.2224424/

 

[emraha06]

it would be great if people take a picture with grey background in a dark room so everyone can compare his/her own display

 

[AnotherAverageUser]

Yes, and I thought it was just me. It got annoying to the point that I had to replace all my wallpapers to dark or punchy colours. Most visible when there is not a lot of content on screen. Love my MacBook, but extremely disappointing screen for a $6000 laptop.

 

[emraha06]

could you please post a foto with grey backgroung in dark room

 

[jabbr]

my 14" has a bit of a green tint in the top right corner, fairly subtle but still annoying.

 

[bill-p]

it would be great if people take a picture with grey background in a dark room so everyone can compare his/her own display

Honestly... no uniformity issue. 14" M1 Pro 10 cores 16GB 1TB. The only thing I do notice is that the two sides are slightly darker when I don't look at them straight on when there is a white background. But if I look straight at them, they're fine.

Bonus:

No cursor or top menu bar:

And very very very dark gray (to my eyes, this is just barely brighter than black), and you can clearly see I couldn't hide the cursor in notch very well here:

P.S.: if you can see red patches, please ignore those. Those came from the camera (my iPhone) being sensitive to the coating on the display or something. I can assure you... this looks basically perfect to my naked eyes.

 

[metapunk2077fail]

Honestly... no uniformity issue. 14" M1 Pro 10 cores 16GB 1TB. The only thing I do notice is that the two sides are slightly darker when I don't look at them straight on when there is a white background. But if I look straight at them, they're fine.

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Bonus:

No cursor or top menu bar:
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And very very very dark gray (to my eyes, this is just barely brighter than black), and you can clearly see I couldn't hide the cursor in notch very well here:
View attachment 1904553

P.S.: if you can see red patches, please ignore those. Those came from the camera (my iPhone) being sensitive to the coating on the display or something. I can assure you... this looks basically perfect to my naked eyes.

That's all that matters. How it looks to your eyes, not how it looks to a camera.

Cameras are not users.

 

[7Mekanos]

Though it’s a bit hard to tell in the bright store lights, I noticed a color uniformity issue with the 14” in the store. The right side of the screen had a slight red tint. The 16” seemed to be fine.

Regarding brightness uniformity these new xdr displays (as well as my 12,9” IPP) seem to be good so far, haven’t noticed any dirty screen effect or uneven backlight in neither white or gray backgrounds. Time will tell if they stay that way or if they get all splotchy in a few years due to the individual wear of the minileds…

Still waiting for my own 16” to arrive, I’m a bit worried about these matters as I’ve had to return quite a few laptops and displays over the years because of uniformity issues.

 

[davidako]

How do you get a completely grey screen?

 

[ASX]

EIZO monitors for offices, photos & design, medicine, gaming and industry

EIZO MONITOR TEST

www.eizo.be

Uniformity test. For removing the menu, hit space bar. For switching between test screens use arrow up and down keys.

 

[Nocturnal-G]

You can see my screen issue via this test. Middle of the screen looks brighter… gives a depth of field kind of look to my screen. Reading or doing anything hurts because my eyes are constantly out of focus.

 

[ASX]

Consider only a few panels will have a nearly perfect uniformity.

I had a lot of Lg ips displays which are also used for the mbp 2021. Only one (it's extreme luck if you get one, in my case it was LG 34GP950G, had a lot of this panels (X34GS, 34GN850) with bad color tinting and dse) of around 100+ ips lcd screens i have tested has a nearly perfect uniformity. If you wont have bad uniformity you should look for Eizo Color Edge series with display uniformity equalizer. It's adjusting the uniformity for a lot display areas individually.

 

[Sanpete]

Middle of the screen looks brighter…

May well be brighter, as that's common, but it may also be angle of view. Typically, looking straight at an area of the screen makes it look brighter (whether with eyes or camera), so from a close viewing distance edges often look darker than they really are.

 

[synergize]

Mine did good on all 13 tests, thanks for posting the test link. If you monitor looks good to your eyes it's fine, no one will see everything the same as the next person.

 

[emraha06]

thanks for feedback both @Nocturnal-G and @bill-p

 

[bevsb2]

My 16" looks perfect to me. Uniformity and color are always a concern when I open a new Apple device, but most of the time I've been lucky.

 

[TofSanity]

I have a slight discoloration around the screen…. I have the 16” M1

 

[instructio5]

The brightness definitely drops off at the screen edges on my 16" M1 Pro, like a shadow/vignette kind of effect, especially on white backgrounds

 

[TinyMito]

Yeah at the edge because of that minileds cutoff point. I don't think they can go all the way to the edge like the LCD at the front. OLED would be able to.

 

[emraha06]

I have a slight discoloration around the screen…. I have the 16” M1

discoloration on edges or somewhere in the whole area?

 

[TofSanity]

discoloration on edges or somewhere in the whole area?

it's more like a frame that goes around the whole screen. I read, either in this thread or another, that it could be caused by the mini-LED not going all the way to the edges.

 

[emraha06]

Honestly... no uniformity issue. 14" M1 Pro 10 cores 16GB 1TB. The only thing I do notice is that the two sides are slightly darker when I don't look at them straight on when there is a white background. But if I look straight at them, they're fine.

View attachment 1904547

Bonus:

No cursor or top menu bar:
View attachment 1904552

And very very very dark gray (to my eyes, this is just barely brighter than black), and you can clearly see I couldn't hide the cursor in notch very well here:
View attachment 1904553

P.S.: if you can see red patches, please ignore those. Those came from the camera (my iPhone) being sensitive to the coating on the display or something. I can assure you... this looks basically perfect to my naked eyes.

is there a little light bleeding on bottom right of the notch?

 

[rawweb]

is there a little light bleeding on bottom right of the notch?

I believe that's the mouse cursor...@bill-p mentions it in the post...

I've got a 16" M1M here, no issues. This machine has been a joy to work with. Haven't got much time to nitpick, it keeps me too productive!

 

[misiektoja]

I went through 4 MBP 14s to get the perfect display. The first one had dark purple type of tint to the left and right edge of the screen, I could not focus due to that. The second one had pink tint on the left half of the screen, it was driving me crazy. The third one was almost perfect, but had some slight red tint at the bottom right corner, however it was rather acceptable, but since I got almost fully loaded MBP 14 (64 GB RAM and 4TB SSD) I decided I need a perfect one as it was not cheap and I intend to stay with it for another 4-5 years, so there should be no compromises. So I ordered the the 4th unit (while still keeping the 3rd one) and this one has perfect display, no tint, no darker edges. So there are perfect displays out there, however as my case shows most have some slight issues :-(

 

[Six0Four]

I had a couple very faint vertical dark lines on my 14". Returned it.