[reemas]

can anyone help me understand what the relative quality of the powerbook screen is?

is it the same quality as an apple lcd display screen? pixels?

i don't know much about screen details but any info you give me i'd be most thankful for!

[gif32]

Originally posted by reemas:
can anyone help me understand what the relative quality of the powerbook screen is?

is it the same quality as an apple lcd display screen? pixels?

i don't know much about screen details but any info you give me i'd be most thankful for!

One of the things I used to justify switching to a PB was how beautiful the display was. I'm a lighting designer, so I'm constantly looking at contrast in images...

From looking at TiBooks I thought the LCD was bright, crisp, and had an amazing viewing angle. What I got with my 15" Aluminum was every bit as nice, except:

It's been replaced three times already and I'm about to go for number four. The quality is great when it works, but the quality control is lousy. White spots. Stuck pixels. And now... uneven illumination. Search for any of those topics on this forum and you'll find a wealth of reading material unfortunately.

-gif

[sodamnregistered2]

Originally posted by reemas:
can anyone help me understand what the relative quality of the powerbook screen is?

I just bought a 15" Powerbook. I went into the Applestore to get a 12" but after seeing the screens side by side, the 12" looks dim and grey.

Of the current crop:

12" looks dim and grey and is only 1024x768, which is ok since the 12" is so very small. Would be an awesome mini-notebook if the screen was brighter and if it came with a 64MB card so you could get Quartz Extreme acceleration on the LCD _and_ and external monitor.

15" looks great. Bright. Good contrast. Mine works great so far. This model has been plagued with white spots and now uneven illumination. I just need mine for the summer, so hopefully it will last the 6 months I need it to.

17" looks great. Bright. Good contrast, have not heard any real complaints regarding quality. The laptop is just too large for my tastes though. And the 1.33GHz is not so much faster that it forces the issue.

[vancenase]

Originally posted by sodamnregistered2:
17" looks great. Bright. Good contrast, have not heard any real complaints regarding quality. The laptop is just too large for my tastes though. And the 1.33GHz is not so much faster that it forces the issue.

I think I'm an outlier ... my 17" has developed a somewhat faint, but visible whitespot.

[Jaeger]

I’m having colour accuracy/gamut issues with the 15" screen that aren’t apparent on Apple LCD desktop screens or monitors. Weirdly enough, it seems like the laptop screen can’t display all the colours it should (e.g. RGB 0,0,255 is light purple, not pure blue, when working in a soft-proofed colour space in Photoshop). Try going into Photoshop CS and scrolling through a colour model – there is all sorts of clipping going on. If you select a device independent working colour space and specify a profiled display space, I still get weird stuff going on. I hope this is just a software bug.