15" 2017 MacBook Pro 10bit display?

[oneafour]

Thank you for all the responses. I would be curious to see the results of a test using a 10bit gradient on a 2017 15". Also a comparison with the 5K iMac which is also 10bit to see if its just dithering or true 10bit

I just tested using multiple monitors on the 2017 15 mbpr and all of the monitors are showing up as 10bit and that can't be right.

It looks like there is a bug and it would not surprise me if its reporting all displays as 10bit when they're all 8bit.

 

[neekon]

I just tested using multiple monitors on the 2017 15 mbpr and all of the monitors are showing up as 10bit and that can't be right.

It looks like there is a bug and it would not surprise me if its reporting all displays as 10bit when they're all 8bit.

Interesting. It could very well be a bug if its reporting everything as 10bit. I would assume the displays you tested it with were not 10bit

 

[y-c-c]

Interesting. It could very well be a bug if its reporting everything as 10bit. I would assume the displays you tested it with were not 10bit

I got a 15" MBP 2017, and I was curious about this too. I went to Xcode's Swift Playground, and typed this:

NSBitsPerPixelFromDepth((NSScreen.main()?.depth)!)​

The line returned "24", which seemed to indicate a 8-bit screen. Anyone with an iMac 5K or 10-bit display knows if this will be 30 if you type this on a 10-bit screen? Anyway, I do concur it seems more like a software bug now. Even Apple's tech specs for MBP says "millions of colors" instead of the "billions of colors" that they advertise for iMac 5K.

It's a little disappointing I guess, but maybe not too surprising. It would be weird if they randomly did this upgrade (and only on 15") and told no one about this.