[Too Artificial]

My mini arrived today and I've finished tranferring my data from the old PowerBook and everything is great. I have it hooked up to a Dell 2005FPW and wow is it bright! I tried adjusting the brightness with the controls on the display itself but it did nothing. The same thing happened when I had the monitor hooked up to my Powerbook from work.

I checked Google and apparently the brightness control isn't doing much for a lot of folks and there didn't seem to be many Mac based solutions. Anyone here have any suggestions? The best I've come up with so far is to go into the on screen settings and adjust the individual color settings down (an equal amount each), but this seems like a less than perfect solution.

[Macola]

Did you try setting up a calibrated profile?

[Captain Egotist]

Ouch. That sucks. I really wanted one of those too.

[Cadaver]

Originally posted by Too Artificial:
My mini arrived today and I've finished tranferring my data from the old PowerBook and everything is great. I have it hooked up to a Dell 2005FPW and wow is it bright! I tried adjusting the brightness with the controls on the display itself but it did nothing. The same thing happened when I had the monitor hooked up to my Powerbook from work.

I checked Google and apparently the brightness control isn't doing much for a lot of folks and there didn't seem to be many Mac based solutions. Anyone here have any suggestions? The best I've come up with so far is to go into the on screen settings and adjust the individual color settings down (an equal amount each), but this seems like a less than perfect solution.

Sounds like the monitor is defective. If the front panel buttons aren't doing anything, then it needs to go back while you can still exchange it.

[Too Artificial]

Originally posted by Cadaver:
Sounds like the monitor is defective. If the front panel buttons aren't doing anything, then it needs to go back while you can still exchange it.

That's what I'm thinking, but if that's the case, it seems there's a TON of them out there that are broken. Everything works fine except the brightness control and I can adjust each individual color down. For example, by default, Red and Green are at 100 and Blue is at 94. If I reduce each by twenty it's nowhere near as bright. I don't know what the cons are of doing it this way.

The thing I'm debating is whether it's a big enough problem to send it back. During the day it doesn't bother me at all, but at night, unless I keep the room well lit, it's a *bit* much.

Another reason I'm not sure about sending it in, it's pretty flawless otherwise and given the track record of the display overall, I don't know if that's a chance I want to take.

[osxisfun]

Originally posted by Cadaver:
Sounds like the monitor is defective. If the front panel buttons aren't doing anything, then it needs to go back while you can still exchange it.

nope. mine is brighter then the SUN and the "controls" barely change a thing....you can barely tell they work.

i did a calibrate and turned the gamma all the way. its helped a little but i literaly do no put page white windows on the dell. i even made the default background to gray in omniweb so i can throw a web browser onto it.

[Too Artificial]

Originally posted by osxisfun:
nope. mine is brighter then the SUN and the "controls" barely change a thing....you can barely tell they work.

i did a calibrate and turned the gamma all the way. its helped a little but i literaly do no put page white windows on the dell. i even made the default background to gray in omniweb so i can throw a web browser onto it.

yeah, that's what i mean. i may just end up adjusting the colors down slightly on the display controls since i don't do any print/graphics work that requires accurate color.