Display Dithering (poor quality?)

maybe someone set the display to thousands of colors?

Can you download some very hi-res images from Canon EOS website, and tell me how they look on MBA? Thanks.

http://web.canon.jp/imaging/eosd/eos1dsm3/eos1dsm3_sample-e.html

Hiya!

Gee...this is beginning to remind me of the screen problems that people were initially reporting with the iPod touch when they managed to get them . :S Perhaps you might want to try a monitor test of some kind to see how the colors on your screen are supposed to look? Something like this:

http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/

Maybe you'll want to see how your screen does if you load up that page first and look at the graphics on it. If something's wrong and you have to go to the Apple Store to have a Genius look at your MBA, you can try loading up this page to show them what's going on.

Like all other macb0oks and most laptop displays the screen is 6 bit and can only display 256k colors. I don't know why Apple say millions. You can research this online.

i was about ready to return my mb for the air because I heard the screen blew it away. When I looked at it in reality it was the same including the viewing angle. only advantage is the air is about 10-20% brigher giving the illusion it looks better. The led screen has better battery life but from what i am reading overall the MB lasts a little longer then the air.

I have a new MacBook with the dithering artifacts, and it definitely is NOT normal. Here are some photos I took of the issue:

http://homepage.mac.com/mlostracco/MacBook/

When I went into the Apple Store, most of the new MacBooks and MBAs had this dithering, but many did not (exact same model).

Thanks guys, this is exactly why I came here. I am not happy with the display at all. My 6 year old Titanium PowerBook has a better display. There is no "gif-like banding" going on at all. This is VERY much like the iPod Touch/iPhone display issues.

I have pretty good vision. Even at two feet distance I can see the "grid" in the blue buddy lines in iChat.

Since it seems to be "normal" I will sit tight. Its amazing how noticeable it is on the default desktop on the boarders of the dark parts of the "nebula".

Im just surprised my old Titanium screen looks so much better, just not as bright.

I hate to say this but the older displays were better in every way except brightness - they had better viewing angles with less color distortion, more even backlight, no LCD surface artefacts/graininess etc. The newer displays (all manufacturers) seem to be focused on brightness and contrast alone, at the cost of everything else. It's the industry, not just Apple. It seems that the brighter the display, the more other problems become visible. Some PC displays that lack the brightness look more consistent.

Yeah, this is NOT normal - there is something wrong this the system. This is NOT what my Air (we have 2) does at all.
The iChat resolution is disappointing, but the screen quality has been outstanding, without banding or pixillation.

Rather predictably, Apple have deleted my previous post. So, let me try again. There have recently been some problems with iMac displays and the 'millions of colours' option. Perhaps there are similiar issues with other displays? Try searching the Macnn site for details.

This is in response to the user who is questioning the 'thousands/millions' setting, so I do feel it's of a 'technical nature'. According to articles on the web, this setting no longer allows 'millions of colours' on the iMac without dithering.

Hi there,

I have dithering problems too - but I don't own a MacBook but an iMac (the 24-inch model from April 2007). Fine gradients are pixelated and show a stepping about every 10th pixel...

Cheers
Achim