Bought new iMac 20" Faded Screen

Hi Ya



Tell me how to post a screen grab please, because using a prog called GrabMac, I grab a screen and it shows exactly what I see, sorry but it is true. Or get a copy of GrabMac and do it yourself, I have no reason to lie about this.

I set my iMac to a Solid Dark Grey Desktop, on screen I see dark greyt the top fading to a lighter grey at the bottom, I use GrabMac to take a screen shot and that picture shows the same.

Message was edited by: Washac

Your understanding of how computers and reality work are the problem, not your screen grab utility. Let's say your lcd was completely dead, but the computer still worked. If you used the keyboard shortcut to create a screen grab and could copy that image off of the computer, it would show you a picture perfect version of the desktop, even though the display itself was dead. In much the same way, a screen grab isn't going to actually illustrate the quality of your display as viewed by a person sitting in meatspace. They only way to capture that is via an external capture device like your eyeballs, a video camera, or a still camera. Do you understand now?

A screen capture copies the graphics data from the source. It looks the same on the same monitor because of the characteristics of that monitor and it will likely also look about the same on other LCD panels. To really see the difference, take a screen shot of your LCD monitor and then look at it with a CRT, if you have access to one.

You guys are clueless. Screen grabs or screen shots aren't telling you ANYTHING ABOUT THE QUALITY OF YOUR ACTUAL DISPLAY. ALL THEY ARE A JPEG'ED VERSIONS OF WHAT'S IN THE VIDEO BUFFER. If you want to show us what your display looks like, take a digital photo. Or film and digitize it, whatever. SCREEN SHOTS TELL US NOTHING. ALL OF OUR SCREEN SHOTS LOOK THE SAME BECAUSE THEY'RE RENDERED BY THE SAME GRAPHICS ENGINE. Sorry for the rant.

capaho wrote:
My point is that a photo of a perfect display will look less than perfect on a monitor that is less than perfect.

Yes, a photograph of <anything> "will look" incrementally different than the original <anything>. And any rendering of any photographic image "will look" incrementally different than +any other+ rendering of the same image -- be it on a CRT, an LCD, or a hard-copy archival dye-transfer print.

So, your point is well-taken: ALL photography is nothing but a sham -- a total waste of time, money and effort -- because any image falling short of absolute molecule-for-molecule PERFECTION is indistinguishable from a neolithic cave painting. Thanks for the heads-up....

...I think I'll sell my Canons and buy some nice crayons,

Looby

You might want to actually read my comments first before you reply.

Your propensity for sarcastic pontification aside, do you ever actually get the point of anyone else's posts?

You say it's impossible to distinguish reality from illusion because any gradient we see might be nothing more than an artifact of the display we view it on ...

...so, how do you explain these?

Looby

...any gradient we see might be nothing more than an artifact of the display we view it on ...

Is that such a difficult point to understand? If your monitor has such a pronounced gradient, you will not be able to accurately view a photo of another monitor on it. The quality of the photo doesn't matter if it's viewed on a monitor that can't display it accurately.

I just bought a new 20" iMac, and the screen is absolutely perfect. No gradient differences or washed out / blurred icons at the bottom (and luckily no dead pixels either). Was a little worried when I noticed this topic, but luckily it doesn't seem to happen to all models. The one I saw in the apple store had no issues either. It's much better than my grainy MacBook Pro screen.

Hi Edward,

May I know which week of manufacture is this machine? Would like to know if they have cleared all the defective screens.

Many thanks!
Ian

Sure. Could you tell me where to find that? I have no idea 🙂.

Edward: You can know that from the serial number. Could you please post the first 5 digits/letters from your serial numer.

Thanks

Hi Edward and all,

Mine is week 37 and I am still having the washed out screens.. 😟 ... if they have fixed the problem, i will be sending my iMac for repair.

Hope Apple has fixed it for all of our sake