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New 24" Penryn iMac owners....screen bleed fixed???
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BTWBTW, I just checked this out. Do a search on the ACD forums here or on apple.com discussions and you'll see people having the same issues on a good amount of the screens.
Here are just a few I found so far...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1105900􍿬
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1105692􍼜
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2139919�
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1104743􍭧
Pretty much the same consensus there as it is here: many people are happy with theirs and a good amount also post about pink hues, yellow/blue banding, etc. A couple users chalked it up to the LCD technology itself - even in expensive ACD's! The idea I get is that larger LCD's simply have a tougher time getting colors even.
Here are just a few I found so far...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1105900􍿬
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1105692􍼜
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2139919�
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1104743􍭧
Pretty much the same consensus there as it is here: many people are happy with theirs and a good amount also post about pink hues, yellow/blue banding, etc. A couple users chalked it up to the LCD technology itself - even in expensive ACD's! The idea I get is that larger LCD's simply have a tougher time getting colors even.
Have you looked at the dates when those threads were posted? They are from 2005 and 2006.
After I returned my 24" Al Imac and replaced it with a MacPro and 23" ACD, I have to say I'm very satisfied with the screen, no gradient and no blacklight bleed. I know there are always a few lemons, especially from my iMac experience, but one of the great things I have found with Apple is that if there is a genuine problem, Apple will either replace it, or refund it.
One of the reasons I chose the 23" ACD is because Apple have been upgrading them over the years and fixing all the known problems. This is a successful product coming to the end of its cycle. The next model could have teething problems which will take some time to sort out. Who knows?
Some of us smug graphic designers are actually good enough and make enough money to afford the appropriate gear.
Yeah and maybe the successful graphic designers who use iMacs are just laughing at you for spending so much money.
Perhaps its comparing apples and oranges but as a violinist I can tell you it's not the violin that matters. It's the person playing it. The folks I met through my years of study who felt the need to brag about how expensive and fine their instruments were were invariably compensating for a lack of talent.
pppffffff!!!! you probably "design" restaurant place mats as menus! haha... good to see the mac pro is being used to it full advantage!!!
if you're overzealous company ever needs to downgrade, i got some clamshell G3 iBooks i'll sell to you for $20 each... i'm quite certain they'll offer more than enough power to handle your fine work.
Just wanted to post some pics of my new 24" iMac to show you all how different the bleed and gradient are.......if you look at my first pics (page 5) near the beginning of the thread you can see the bleed is virtually non-existent in comparison. The pics were taken with the same 5mp N95 Nokia that the others were taken with. I have to say the camera shows a small amount of bleed that you cant see with the naked eye. I really cant detect any at all and was surprised the camera picked up on something invisible to me. The white screen looks like an even white to my eye but on the pic i can see some variation.....I cant detect any cool to warm gradient in real life at all and the pic doesn't show any cold left hand side either. I hope this helps and gives those thinking of getting a 24" iMac some hope.
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Just wanted to post some pics of my new 24" iMac to show you all how different the bleed and gradient are.......if you look at my first pics (page 5) near the beginning of the thread you can see the bleed is virtually non-existent in comparison. The pics were taken with the same 5mp N95 Nokia that the others were taken with. I have to say the camera shows a small amount of bleed that you cant see with the naked eye. I really cant detect any at all and was surprised the camera picked up on something invisible to me. The white screen looks like an even white to my eye but on the pic i can see some variation.....I cant detect any cool to warm gradient in real life at all and the pic doesn't show any cold left hand side either. I hope this helps and gives those thinking of getting a 24" iMac some hope.
strange that your camera is picking up those colors. maybe there was some polarizing/lighting setting or something when they were shot? i always found it best to photograph the screen in a very dark room using a florescent filter (although any auto setting should do just fine).
at first the images kinda freaked me out... i though the later week builds were exhibiting green blotches in the center of the screen with red edges... ha
im so hoping they'll have an MV820 at the apple store next week when i exchange this.
Actually I work for an advertising company that does print and some television work. Generally speaking, HD video benefits from a machine that has over 2 GB of RAM and a 320 GB HD *cough*. But hey, if you like trying to do real creative work on the same kind of hardware I bought for my daughter to play her Dora the Explorer games, be my guest.
I agree on the dark room -- but rather than a filter, have the camera set the
white balance while filling the frame with a neutral white or gray background
(if your camera has a "set white balance" feature, of course).
That won't (can't) eliminate minor color variations, but it should help the
photo capture "what humans perceive" as closely as possible. For example,
a corrected overall white balance would probably make the tint in dantay's
"white screen" photo much less apparent.
BTW, stay away from polarizing filters; the light from LCD panels is highly
polarized. That's the way LCDs work.
LK
and I used to think that a 25Mhz 80386 was fast. Todays professional tool is tomorrows toy.
ha! i recall the good old days of the G3 400MHz Special Edition iMac - IT HAD A DVD PLAYER AND EVERYTHING!
and of course Photoshop 5.5 was blazing fast on that machine...Yeah, good luck with that......maybe the modified screens will shortly be in all the new iMacs. I have seen new spec machines on a week 9 from the W (china) plant and again those screens are really bad. In general everything I have seen from the W plant in China has been pretty awfull.....dings and dents on the iMac cases and dust and hair under the glass. The units from the VM (Czech-foxconn) plant seem to be less likely to be damaged during assembly in my personal experiance.
ha! i recall the good old days of the G3 400MHz Special Edition iMac - IT HAD A DVD PLAYER AND EVERYTHING!
I have a Blueberry 350Mhz G3 iMac in my closet running Tiger