Your iMac (late 09) screen is NOT fine

[SaSaSushi]

Thanks!
I must have missed your post in that thread.

No worries at all and I must apologize to you if my comments seemed accusatory. They were more directed at the poster you were replying TO because he participated in the thread I pointed you at and should be aware of the pictures that have been posted by myself and others.

I hope you get a keeper on the next try. I'm really loving mine!

 

[iamthedudeman]

use a spectrometer ffs.. using a consumer dslr to measure colour is just laughable honestly.

If you are a photographer do yourself a favour and research colour reproduction and measurement before coming up with such a variable prone 'test'

You really know very little about the way the devices you use work if you think there is any accuracy present in the image you captured.


This made me laugh today at least.

Wow. Finally some reason to all this madness.

This post is spot on. Sorry.

To the OP, without this test does your panel look bad? Without doing this test, or did you do the test based on the crazy reports on this site?

Your panel looks fine to me from the pictures. Regardless of your flawed test. I have a 21.5 and it looks perfect. And no I don't care to do a test to see if I am right or not. If it looks fine to me why bother.

People on this site make up just a fraction of the millions of people who buy Macs in the first place. You do realize this? Don't you. That is why Apple is not seeing this as a widespread problem. Because it most likely isn't to them. If it is at all.

Do a large number of panels have a yellow tint, maybe so. Do people on this site see it as a big problem, yes they do. Do the general public, no they don't. Are most people on this site sickened with OCD, yes they are. In a big way.

Most of the posts are of people putting up pictures with so called "yellow tint'. Most of the time I cannot see a problem, some do most of the time not. Am I color blind maybe, but probably not.

The moral of the story is that you people are crazy. Go see a shrink.

 

[iamthedudeman]

Well I'm sure there are better screens than what I have out there. My first screen had annoying blue in the upper right, but not really any "yellow" on the bottom. So surely there has to be a decent screen right? A perfect one? Dunno...that doesn't matter to me. Even my ACD at work has pretty bad uniformity, but it's four years old now.

However, I would bet a thousand bucks that PLENTY of people could look at my current screen and say "it's perfect!" when it's far from being so. Some people just don't see these things, or really don't care. Heck, I'm wondering if it's even worth it at this point, because I could just get another machine in 6-12 months, and this one would still allow me to get great work done overall. But that's kinda like letting Apple screw me so...can't bring myself to do it.

So yeah, someone please just show us a basically uniform acceptable screen. Just one? We have a few people insisting theirs is completely perfect, but incredulously refuse to post a shot of it, for whatever reason. If I ever got a perfect one I'd take a bunch of pictures for people that wanted to see it. I'd be glad too, in fact.

You finally get the point. Most screens on the market today weather it is TV screens or computer screens are not perfect. Go check your HDTV and do a test like the OP did to his Mac. Most likely it isn't perfect either. Go and test the other computers in your house and see how perfect they are.

Why does the screen have to be perfect? If it looks good then why do a test. If it looks bad take it back. Most people who buy Macs are not on this site, let me repeat "most people on this site are not the majority of Mac owners'. and if it was such a widespread issue it would be on CNN or Fox news in the "tech' section as pretty big news.

Do you know why it's not, because it isn't big news, that is because it isn't a as big a problem as most claim on this site.

Simple as that.

 

[Binarymix]

It's sad when my early 2006 CD iMac has a uniform screen, and looks beautiful, yet 2009 screens are looking like this.

 

[Sir Cecil]

It's sad when my early 2006 CD iMac has a uniform screen, and looks beautiful, yet 2009 screens are looking like this.

Try a 2010 model. The one I received last week has no problems.

 

[Binarymix]

Try a 2010 model. The one I received last week has no problems.

I won't buy another iMac until I see first hand in a store that the issues have been fixed. Probably next revision.

 

[SaSaSushi]

I won't buy another iMac until I see first hand in a store that the issues have been fixed. Probably next revision.

Best of luck to you.

In regards to your comment about your 2006 iMac, my i7 has far less gradient issues than my mid-2007 24" iMac did.