Horrible colors on external monitor using macbook air(2012) with mini dp to hdmi

Regardless if the problem lies with bad code written by Intel or Apple's engineers, or the extend of collaboration between their engineers in deveopment process, I do believe it is Apple's responsibilty to address the issue.

Besides, surely someone at Apple must feel even a tiny little wee bit embarassed that their competitor's product (Windows 7) seems to be running better on their own device.

I should add I am using the Windows 8 release preview and, as with Windows 7, the HDMI output is also as crisp as you like.

You're probably right about the audio, only because I don't have any sort of external of remote screen speakers in my set-up.

Not sure if its been covered before, but I'm running parrallels rather than boot camp and whether in OSX or Parrallels/Windows7, with just the HDMI comnnection (ie not subdevided via DVI), I had washed out colours on both.

Would be nice of apple to fix for the MBA and as nice a 13" pro or pro with retina is or will be, the MBA, for me, wins on weight.

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Yup, the windows fix only works in Bootcamp rather than a VM prgram.

And agree, would rather a fixed Air than anything else - the form factor, and native resolution is perfect.

Intel HD3000 and AMD Radeon HD 6770M (Macbook Pro 15") and I'm having exactly the same issue. Definitely not Intel's fault.

@gubble and @Calreth

Mini displayport to displayport will not work with my HP monitor. I've just ordered a mini displayport to DVI as a workaround.

My monitor: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6115/hp-2311xi-ips-monitor

So, I'm sure the issue will be fixed on a DVI connection. My main complaint is that I now have to buy two adapters (one for TV, one for monitor). I also saw there is only a 14 day return window. That's pretty shady!

I've got the same issue. MBA-mid-2012 MiniDP to HDMI on Samsung. Washed out colors. Light greys become white, etc. I'm following up with support currently. Will update if I get anywhere.

DVI adadpter arrived today. Plugged it in and all is right in the world. Come on Apple, I just blew $30 on a worthless HDMI adapter 😟

You think thats bad. I bought a new monitor and external mouse and keyboard to use with it, and the monitor only has HDMI, so buying another adapter isn't even an option 😟

aaron.rodrigue, I'm in a similar situation, although I have a VGA port on my monitor which saves me, kind of...

The worst thing is that probably at Apple they are just saying "Huh, whatever! They can live with this for a while. Most of our profits are not coming from people who hook up their Macbooks to HDMI monitors"

As far as I can tell, 10.8.1 has made no difference on a mid 2012 11" MBA using HDMI output to a Samsung S23B550. The color gamut is still tiny.

Here's a gamut comparison against a profile generated using a Mid 2009 13" MBP (NVIDIA GeForce 9400M) on the same display:

I can confirm that 10.8.1 makes no difference.

I'd urge anyone with this problem to create a support case - the more of us that let them know there is an issue the more chance it will get fixed!

If you point out the existence of this thread to the front-line support engineer, and refuse to do any of the 'suggestions that might fix it' you will, after a short wait (10min!) be put through to a supervisor. The supervisor agreed to log the issue and asked me to run a data-gathering piece of software and email him the results, which I did. The case is now shows as active but unresolved

I was not given a resolution time, or a confirmation that it is a known driver issue.

Same here - no fix with ML 8.1 for MBA mid-2012 with BenQ GL2440 HD 24" using mini-DP to HDMI as per my previous posting. Oh well, perhaps 8.2 or 8.3 or 8.4 may fix it......

I have posted an official Apple bug report to aid in our efforts - suggest others do same!