iMac Air Gap

[snow755]

Yikes. i wounder has any noted the air gap with the new iMac? And it’s not Fully. Laminated to the screen like iPad Air and iPad Pro ?

all so the white border are not helping lol

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[Mr.Blacky]

Where do you see that air gap? Also stop acting like this is the first Mac display with a white/light-color border. We had it on the iMac G3, G4, G5, iBook, Powerbook and most people didn't care. 🤷‍♂️

 

[snow755]

Where do you see that air gap? Also stop acting like this is the first Mac display with a white/light-color border. We had it on the iMac G3, G4, G5, iBook, Powerbook and most people didn't care. 🤷‍♂️

You need to Relax I don’t need to stop doing anything this is my opinion on the new iMac

 

[Mr.Blacky]

You need to Relax I don’t need to stop doing anything this is my opinion on the new iMac

This was more a respond to all people who complain about the white border. 🙂
But still: Where did you see that air gap?

 

[Serban55]

where is the air gap?

 

[snow755]

the arrow point where I see the air gap

 

[Mr.Blacky]

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the arrow point where I see the air gap

I have this on my iPad Pro to and the display on that device is surely fully laminated (no air gap).

 

[Jamalien]

There won't be an air gap. Laminating is cheap enough that it more than warrants the reflectivity benefits that come with it on a £1000+ machine. Black space between the bezel and display doesn't mean airgaps...

 

[Fried_Gold]

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the arrow point where I see the air gap

You mean the black outline? Don't think it's an air gap buddy.

 

[Mr.Blacky]

There won't be an air gap. Laminating is cheap enough that it more than warrants the reflectivity benefits that come with it on a £1000+ machine. Black space between the bezel and display doesn't mean airgaps...

Do you, by chance, know why most LCD displays have a small black space between the display and the bezel? I was asking this myself since a pretty long time, but never found an answer. 🤔

 

[Cassandle]

Where do you see that air gap? Also stop acting like this is the first Mac display with a white/light-color border. We had it on the iMac G3, G4, G5, iBook, Powerbook and most people didn't care. 🤷‍♂️

And the pre-Retina MBA had silver bezels.

 

[calstanford]

That's not an air gap. That's the border of the actual LCD panel.

 

[biffuz]

Where do you see that air gap? Also stop acting like this is the first Mac display with a white/light-color border. We had it on the iMac G3, G4, G5, iBook, Powerbook and most people didn't care. 🤷‍♂️

But that was the same color of the chassis.

Do you, by chance, know why most LCD displays have a small black space between the display and the bezel? I was asking this myself since a pretty long time, but never found an answer. 🤔

An LCD display is made of different layers, the bezel is actually part of the structure to hold them together. I don't know if all of them can be glued, or perhaps they don't want to invest on it.
I guess they could have made the white border line perfectly with the pixels, but probably it was too expensive...

 

[Jamalien]

Do you, by chance, know why most LCD displays have a small black space between the display and the bezel? I was asking this myself since a pretty long time, but never found an answer. 🤔

1. Manufacturing tolerances
2. Stop the white border from interacting with the display picture edges when the user looks at the screen from an angle. (This would interrupt on a sub-pixel basis, which would cause lots of rainbow-like artifacting on the edges)

 

[biffuz]

1. Manufacturing tolerances

These are the words I was looking for, when I was trying to explain why the bezel don't line up with the pixels, thanks!

2. Stop the white border from interacting with the display picture edges when the user looks at the screen from an angle. (This would interrupt on a sub-pixel basis, which would cause lots of rainbow-like artifacting on the edges)

That's also a very good point!

Also, the white of the bezel would almost never match the white on the display, since you can change the color temperature, luminosity, contrast, and calibration, so a separation is necessary.