eye strain and headache after using the new MacBook
Basically, what I am experiencing is this:
If I am looking at black text on a white background (like most webpages) - while I am moving my eyes across the text I notice weird black and white bands appear in my field of vision, and these bands fade out in a few seconds. After about 20 minutes of this, I get aches.
I've been using computers for many years now (my last laptop was an IBM X31) and I've never had an issue like this except once with the LG L226W monitors. I've described it to a friend of mine (who is a chronic migraine sufferer) and he said that what I am describing is exactly the start of a migraine - except I don't get migraines, and this is not reproduced on my old laptop. Nor did this happen on the white plastic macbooks.
There are other posts here describing what they see as "flicker". I don't think it's "flicker" in the traditional CRT sense where you had to bump the refresh rate out of 60HZ in order for it to be a comfortable viewing experience. I can't say that I see the display flicker - It's better described as a really weird, "burning" glow. This is true even on the lowest brightness setting.
If anyone has any kind of ideas as to what this could be, I'd really like to hear your opinion.
2.0ghz Aluminum MacBook (Late 2008), Mac OS X (10.5.5)