[jon l. dawson]

it just arrived. I am really impressed. even more than with the power mac g5, for some reason. anyway.

maybe this is a dumb question. is there any reason not to keep the screen brightness set to full? it looks brilliant as is, I guess I'm wondering how others have theirs set. is it always, with lcds, 'the brighter the better' ? I think also it's part that, I tell myself that if I put the brightness down and get used to it, in a couple of years when the lcd is not as bright I can turn it back up and be happy again

[chrisutley]

Set it where you can view it most comfortably. This may depend on your eyesight, how your room is lighted, etc.. I keep mine at about 90%, which seems plenty for me. Alternatively, the much darker display on my Albook 15", I run at 100% all the time (unless I'm on battery and far away from AC!).

[jmonty12]

My only comment is that if you're doing photo editing with your monitor on full brightness then you might think your photos print out too dark compared to how they look in the screen. Keeping the brightness set to the middle normally helps with this.

[Rychiar]

mine had maxed out brightness when i got it, it loks gorgeous but makes the eyes hurt more than the ol crt

[ChrisB]

It really depends on the lighting in the room. I agree that Apple's displays, and some Dells, can really hurt your eyes when at 100% brightness. Plus, if you are doing any precision graphics work, your brightness, even on a CRT should never be set at 100%. What I would recommend is to use Apple's built-in calibration tool in the Display panel of your System Preferences to calibrate your screen to start with, then fine tune it from there. The results are almost always great to start with.