No, you didn't. You said the yellow tinge is not noticable. Bye again.Homeboy, I said most cases aren't noticeable.
No, you didn't. You said the yellow tinge is not noticable. Bye again.
Ok so let me adjust my thoughts:
While I AGREE it sucks to have yellow tinges on your display, this is NOT something new! This is not this great new discovery as some of you make it out to be. Most importantly, you're not going to get a fix for it, ever. The iMac is too "cheap" for that to happen. You give me ANY screen and I will be able to find fault with it. Any screen. My point about "knowing" LCDs is that I'm familiar with their traits. Very familiar. I have had hundreds of them. None perfect. It's just the way it is.
There's two separate things going on here.What the fanboys on this thread fail to grasp is that not all of us buy expensive computers as toys or fashion accessories.
For any serious photographer, having a defective colour screen is unacceptable.
One of the attractions of the new iMacs is that they are supposed to use the more accurate IPS screens rather than the cheap TFT screens.
If the iMac screens can't provide accurate colour, they are useless for anyone working seriously with photographs.
Who the hell edits a picture a the bottom left hand corner of a 27 inch monitor? How many people on here complaining are actually "serious photographers"?
If someone is such a "serious photographer", I would hope they have better things to do than come on here and debate this stupid issue...like maybe returning your Imac and getting something that doesn't have a "tinge" soo that you can get back to your "serious photography".
Your reply is nonsensical.
How does any of it relate to the issue that the screens are unfit for the purpose of accurate colour editing?
Apple made a big deal about the superior IPS technology of the screens yet the screens are useless for accurate colour editing.
Why do you feel threatened by that fact and try to ridicule others for taking their equipment seriously?
If they are unwilling or unable to provide a screen fit for accurate colour work, they should save us all a lot of hassle and money and just stick a cheaper TFT screen in all the iMacs, lower the prices and state clearly that the iMac is a consumer product and not intended for any professional colour editing.
The screen is what, 98% accurate besides that bottom corner?
Deeming a screen useless because of that 2% that is "faulty" is dumb. Your response is pointless.
I'm really bothered that I got called a fanboy. Oh well. Whatever.
There is NO question in my mind that this whole yellowing thing has been blown out of proportion. And for those that say their whatever-brand LCD is completely uniform, BS. BS. BS. There's no such thing. I've owned more LCDs than the average person, and I'm EXTREMELY picky. But I refuse to drive myself crazy over this sort of thing. Is my iMac flawless? Hell no! But am I a fanboy? NO WAY. Like I said in my first post, I found some dust under the glass even before I took it apart to install my SSD.
In any case, this yellowing is not something new and I GUARANTEE you Apple won't "fix it." Color casts on LCDs are something I've learned to deal with over the years. I suggest a lot of you get used to it, or quite simply - buy a different computer since an iMac clearly isn't for you.
For those that care, off the top of my head - products with a color cast of some sort:
1.) Nintendo DS/DSi - various DSs - some with green tints, some yellow.
2.) Sony PSP - green tinge to bottom of screen.
3.) 17" 2007 MacBook Pro. Slightly pinkish tint to the top left.
4.) Apple iPhone/3G/3GS - all my iPhones look different from my wife's iPhones.
5.) Dell 2407WFP. Non-uniform blacks.
6.) MANY Samsung LCD TVs with clouds/patchiness to the backlight - slight yellow tinge on a few of them.
7.) Apple Cinema Displays - slight pink tinge to my 23" ACD and slight yellowing on both of my 24" LED Cinema Displays.
Blah blah blah. You get the idea.![]()
You are correct in saying that the majority of screens do have some sort of color variance, however, the yellow tint issue with the new iMacs is genuine. Apple representatives have acknowledged the problem to me repeatedly during calls.
I have gone through 3 iMac replacements and 1 display replacement. All had a yellow tint. Aside from my own, I have examined many store display iMacs and found some of them to have no color issues whatsoever. The whole point of Apple advertising these iMacs as having "The Ultimate Display" is that they do not suffer from the same uniformity issues as other monitors. Anything less is false advertising.
It IS Apple's responsibility but the LCD manufacturers are making crappy displays and if some of you want to ignore that then you are just hating on Apple just because you can.
Apple.com said:IPS technology.
The iMac display is designed to look great from almost any angle. A technology called in-plane switching (IPS) makes this possible. Whether youre sitting in front of the display or standing off to the side, youll get a perfect picture with superb colour consistency and no loss of detail
I'm not questioning the voracity of the statement that iMacs have yellow tinges. Mine does. I'd be willing to be every single one does.
Something that is yellow at the bottom isn't colour consistant.
Here we go again with the ol' "mine does, so I guess everyone's does" logic. However, I happen know that statement lacks veracity because my own i7 has no such tinge.
It's a widespread problem but not universal.
Oops. I meant veracity, not voracity. LOL! I still maintain no screen is perfect. I know a LOAD of people who'd never care about the tinge.
The whole point of Apple advertising these iMacs as having "The Ultimate Display" is that they do not suffer from the same uniformity issues as other monitors. Anything less is false advertising.
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It's frightening how many perfectly within-normal-tolerance computers must have been returned along with a few genuinely sub-par units, because of that "yellow" test that was planted here. The effects of that thread, combined with the promptings and goadings of a few anti-Apple moles throughout other threads, must be way beyond the instigators' dreams.
The same test (and resulting mass panic) could have been aimed at any model of consumer computer, anytime.
I can't even imagine what percentage of Imacs have been returned. Maybe 20%?
good news for smart consumers who buy refurbs.
OP
When I spoke with Apple tech support about my yellow stained iMac LCD screen their reply was "we are aware of this issue and will contact you in 3 weeks to facilitate an LCD panel exchange". (It's only been 4 days - no news on that front yet)
If this is a normal 'within spec' variance afflicting so many iMacs, why are Apple techs now instructed to address it as a known issue that is actively being dealt with? If this was a normal phenomenon wouldn't Apple's reply be as such? (and politely tell us to suck it up and get over it?).
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