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Display Colors new 16" MacBook Pro Different?
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Yikes. I have a 2014 rMBP that I love the display of. Will be doing a side by side as well.
One thing though - I suffered thru a period of time on the 2014 MBP as well with "washed out" colors and lower contrast. And then one day stumbled upon the Color menu for my Display. I chose Apple RGB instead of Color LCD option and voila! Much contrasty display and much less "washed out"-ness.
Can a 16" owner with the "washed out" problem try this trick out and report back if it "fixes" it?
I swear to God if this starts colorgate... the first gate spelled differently across English speaking countries.
Every time Apple releases something new that is shiny people will look for excuses with the machine. Usually it has to do with the screen
I honestly think it is because apple owners of these high end products have extreme expectations.... but I tried all settings on my model from yesterday and nothing helped! it was a faulty machine for sure... swaped out no issues, the box looked ruffed up too... strange....
It's good that you mentioned it. Now we can be aware of it and now we also know we can change it and have better luck. Thanx!
I just swapped out my MacBook Pro and received a newer build date and the screen is much better.
It could be possible they use lcd panels from different manufacturers, so maybe your second unit had different brand panel. Or the panel was from different batch. There tend to be differencies from panel to panel and you will likely notice more or less differencies when you put two same model machines side by side.
How 16" panel white/gray uniformity on solid color full screen patterns looks like? Any backlight bleeding with black image?
According to the release news, the display on 16" MBP is factory calibrated. Was this the case with previous models? I don't remember that being mentioned anywhere. It might suggest that your old display is just over-saturating. And the new one is showing the correct colors.
LG Display is the sole supplier for the 16" MacBook Pro.
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LG Display. They are the sole supplier.
OK. Then it could be simple variation between batches and/or calibration adjustments made at the factory.
Two panels put side by side often look noticeable different, it is more or less the nature of the lcd panels. Calibrating them with the same calibration equipment minimize the difference.
this new unit however, is much better - just amazing how washed out the other one looked almost like an air!...lol
nope I tried re-setting all settings, it was the screen I am sure... was dull as he**.... very odd...
Yep, definitely not a display issue. Not saying there wasn't an issue with the original unit, but a screen shot will not show a fault with the display. Its not how screenshots work.
Put it this way, if you plug in two other displays into your laptop where each monitor has its own configuration, you'll end up with the same image three times all looking different. What you get when you take the screenshot isn't a reflection of each display (which would need 3x screenshots), but rather the image the system is attempting to output to each of the displays.
Could have connected to an external display, closed the lid and thus turned off the laptop display, and have got the exact same screenshot.
That makes your screen shot a great mystery, because it can only show the colors the screen is told to show. Even if you disconnected the screen (and knew how to take a screen shot with keyboard shortcuts) you could take a screen shot, and it would look the same as if the screen were working. Something was telling it to show washed out colors.
Looks like Smigit posted a similar point while I was writing this.
I actually returned the 16" today. I used it for one day and I realized the .6" increase in screen size wasn't worth the large expense. I could care less about the higher numbers in the specs department simply because all I use my 2015 mid 15" MBP is web browsing and watching YouTube videos. And even then my laptop is way overkill for those two reasons. Plus, the thought of losing MagSafe charging isn't something I'm willing to depart from.
The fact that this needs to be explained shows the level (or the lack of) of some threads...
On my MBP 2017 15", the colors on Chrome and Firefox don't match. For example, the frontpage of Macrumors has slightly more saturated reds on Firefox than on Chrome. No idea, if OP used the same app with the same color profile to test this thing.
Yeah, sometimes the same thing worries me when I read these forums.
Anyway back to the topic and about mentioned possibility (read impossibility) to take a screen grab to compare image seen on the display. It would mean that the display panel front should have some kind of camera integrated in it that takes the actual screen grab. Otherwise it just cannot work work.
As far as I know there are no such panels ever made... There are a lot of differencies how each panel actually show the image they are inputted and variances come from many different things like backlight and assembly of different layers when panel it put together and all sorts of manufacturing tolerances to name of few.