Headache and dizziness with M3 Air

[sunisherethanks]

Hello,

I have bought a 16 GB/512G space grey M3 air

Unfortunately, i have headache when using it, even for less than 10 min

I know its not PWM, as the M3 air doesnt have it, but it might something else

Any help ?

I have less than 10 days for the return, i'm very happy with it but i cant continue using it, i will try see if my eyes can be used to it

 

[Howard2k]

Turn up the brightness? Get reading glasses?

 

[lord_kelvin]

It could be because of temporal dithering. Stillcolor may be something worth trying out: https://github.com/aiaf/Stillcolor. More info: https://ledstrain.org/d/2686-i-disa...e-silicon-introducing-stillcolor-macos-m1m2m3

 

[adrianlondon]

What laptop did you have before? One that, one assumes, didn't give you headaches?

 

[IJBrekke]

Unfortunately, there have been several threads on this issue - it seems to have started when the M-based Apple processors were introduced. There is something going on with these screens that causes these symptoms, and no one is 100% sure of the root cause. Do some searching, there are several things you can try. Some claim mitigation but it’s inconsistent at best.

I found the M1 MacBook Pro to be the least bad for my sensitivity. I had to return multiple newer machines because I couldn’t look at the screens without fatigue, nausea, dizziness, and discomfort.

 

[sunisherethanks]

I had Asus, Lenovo, acer with LCD screen, never had any problem

 

[sunisherethanks]

It could be because of temporal dithering. Stillcolor may be something worth trying out: https://github.com/aiaf/Stillcolor. More info: https://ledstrain.org/d/2686-i-disa...e-silicon-introducing-stillcolor-macos-m1m2m3

Didnt try that, changing the color profile can change anything ?

 

[sunisherethanks]

Turn up the brightness? Get reading glasses?

Brightness is on 70/80%

 

[za9ra22]

Brightness is on 70/80%

My brightness is set one below 50%, and that's plenty enough for my taste. I'd suggest turning brightness down not up. It'll tend to look a bit dim immediately after the change, but that's just while your eyes adjust.

 

[Steve121178]

I prefer dark mode but sometimes when an app is badly designed to my eyes it's too 'dark' and the font used causes me problems. Also occurs with certain websites when scrolling.

Perhaps toggle to the light mode if you haven't already and see if that helps?

 

[arcite]

Another thing to try, turn off font smoothing. Download the app “Font Smoothing Adjuster”

 

[erkanasu]

related to my issue? https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...-when-using-midnight-13-m3-air.2422177/page-2

 

[spamabyss]

So go for the scientific approach.

1. Turn the computer on.
2. Go close to it without touching and looking at the screen: Some form of gas.
3. Touch it without looking at the screen: Contact allergy.
4. Use it with external keyboard and mouse and the internal screen: Screen related issue.

In this order.
If you say you can reproduce it consistently, this should do the trick.