Smooth gradients on the macbook pro lcd display !
I recently purchased a macbook pro with the new lcd screen, but I quickly discovered the lack of screen quality in displaying gradients.
I discovered the issue in illustrator, having problems getting my gradients smooth, but after doing some research on this subject it became clear to me that it was nor illustrator or photoshop doing dodgy(banded) gradients, but it was the lcd display on my macbook pro 15" that didn't display the gradients right.
Making sure colors where set to millions and the contrast setting where set to normal, I still saw these dodgy gradients, so I called up my local Apple support.
First of all he recomended that i double checked the above mentioned settings and reinstalled photoshop and illustrator, but after convincing him this was not the issue, he started to see the dodgy gradiens himself on his screen.
A good example of the bad gradients can be seen in the default icon of the coverflow. Here you should see a smooth circular gradient going from the top down going from white to black, but if you own a new macbook pro there is a good chance you don't see a smooth gradient.
So far my research haven't solved the problem so my theory is that it is either the software not performing smoothly, or even worse it is a hardware problem.
If it is software related i would recommend Apple to fix this as soon as possible, but if its hardware related I have a problem.
Is there any solution to this ?
Related post about the subject:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=256248
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=319996
I discovered the issue in illustrator, having problems getting my gradients smooth, but after doing some research on this subject it became clear to me that it was nor illustrator or photoshop doing dodgy(banded) gradients, but it was the lcd display on my macbook pro 15" that didn't display the gradients right.
Making sure colors where set to millions and the contrast setting where set to normal, I still saw these dodgy gradients, so I called up my local Apple support.
First of all he recomended that i double checked the above mentioned settings and reinstalled photoshop and illustrator, but after convincing him this was not the issue, he started to see the dodgy gradiens himself on his screen.
A good example of the bad gradients can be seen in the default icon of the coverflow. Here you should see a smooth circular gradient going from the top down going from white to black, but if you own a new macbook pro there is a good chance you don't see a smooth gradient.
So far my research haven't solved the problem so my theory is that it is either the software not performing smoothly, or even worse it is a hardware problem.
If it is software related i would recommend Apple to fix this as soon as possible, but if its hardware related I have a problem.
Is there any solution to this ?
Related post about the subject:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=256248
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=319996
Macbook pro, Mac OS X (10.5.6)
