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Macbook Air 2012 - LG vs Samsung LCD

i know someone who has both panels

and it's only a matter of calibration to get the same result so why do people care so much about getting a LG or Samsung

like if Samsung couldn't deliver defective panels :rolleyes:

last year i had a 13" MBP with a yellow tint on a Samsung panel, i had it replace, finally, i got a LG panel, it was perfect...
 
Got my MacBook Air this morning, and it's an LG screen and Samsung SSD. Honestly, the screen is excellent and I'm not inclined to even worry about calibrating it. Perhaps that's because I'm coming from an HP Envy 14, and so by comparison this screen just pops.
 
Haha, I have had my MBA for a couple of days now and just remembered to get this. I have an LG screen...it looks really good.

Y'all make a big deal outta erry'thing.
 
I got my new Macbook Air today. As I expected based on my "luck", the screen is an LG. But I cannot tell the difference between the LG and my wife's that's a Samsung. She can't tell the difference either. We both started at them next to one another. The text looks exactly the same sharpness. I even checked again because the two screens were so similar. Maybe I'm not sensitive to the screen differences on the Macbook Air.

MBA i7/8/256 here.
 
usmaak said:
I got my new Macbook Air today. As I expected based on my "luck", the screen is an LG. But I cannot tell the difference between the LG and my wife's that's a Samsung. She can't tell the difference either. We both started at them next to one another. The text looks exactly the same sharpness. I even checked again because the two screens were so similar. Maybe I'm not sensitive to the screen differences on the Macbook Air.
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No, I suspect your experience (which is similar to mine where I noticed no difference between all 3 panels) is the same for the average user. This thread gave me needless anxiety until I went to see the differences myself and I couldn't pinpoint any.
 
I have no idea.. nor do i care which screen I have. Ive had my 11" for 3 weeks now and the first think I did.. was calibrate the screen. I guess it helps I'm a photographer and know what I'm looking for......The difference between the "shipped" profile and mine is ..... enormous!!!!..... having said that, it only took 15 min......So, those of you who are unhappy with whatever screen u have, "Calibrate" it!!! its not rocket science.... you'll be pleasantly surprised.
 
Today I was in Apple store, and compared my LG to one of the Samsung panels on the same computer (13" AIR). The only thing I can say is that after enabling one of the profiles somebody has posted here, this thread is pure BS. There is no a single difference between my screen and the crappy Samsung that was sitting there on the table. Guys, you need to find something better to do with your lives.
 
Moshe1010 said:
Today I was in Apple store, and compared my LG to one of the Samsung panels on the same computer (13" AIR). The only thing I can say is that after enabling one of the profiles somebody has posted here, this thread is pure BS. There is no a single difference between my screen and the crappy Samsung that was sitting there on the table. Guys, you need to find something better to do with your lives.
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Like I said earlier in this thread: calibrating any screen can help quite a bit in improving the image quality (but it doesn't have to). That's because they take some of the screens, calibrate them so they all look usably good, average it and then push that profile out. You get a screen that works out of the box but isn't necessarily optimal. The videocard is also part of the equation so that's another reason why you should at least try calibrating the screen yourself and see if it improves things or not.
Mind you, it is still a TN-panel thus it will still be sucky image quality wise when compared to something like IPS. If you really want a good screen get an IPS one. In other words: know the limitations of the technology!
 
clyde2801 said:
Said the guy who was posting on macrumors at 4:49 a.m....on a weekend!;)




And no need to point out that I've posted this at 4:53 a.m.; sadly enough, I'm already aware of it.:eek:
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Technically it was 2:37AM (PST), and it was after going to a movie with my girlfriend, so I guess I do have life.
 
kodeman53 said:
Because of incorrect, Chicken Little, 'the sky is falling if you get anything but a Samsung' threads and posts.
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What macchiato2009 says is an after the fact. It seems this thread has brought some to the conclusion that it is not as much the panel maker, but rather that the calibration profiles shipping with the airs is more suited to the Samsung. So assuming we can get that idea to stand out more, we may get people to stop complaining. In other words, I highly doubt people are complaining because of bad stock color profiles as macchiato2009 seems to state.
 
As a sysadmin handling various brands of notebooks and displays I can say that it is very uncommon for displays to fail. When they fail they either are very old (5+ years), they are broken right out of the box or users abused them (putting a pen on the notebook, then closing the notebook...). The displays failing most are the stand alone ones, not the ones in notebooks. One thing I've never heard any user complain about ever, is image quality of the display. I've asked others and they have the same experiences. The problem is by no means as big as you are now trying to make it look like (but yes, stuff does fail but that goes for any piece of hardware).

LG used to be crap in the CRT era though. Their displays somehow turned fuzzy in either a few months or a few years (if you were lucky). They did, however, replace them.

LG-Philips however does not exist any more. Philips withdrew, it is now LG-only. Completely different company now.
 
dyn said:
As a sysadmin handling various brands of notebooks and displays I can say that it is very uncommon for displays to fail. When they fail they either are very old (5+ years), they are broken right out of the box or users abused them (putting a pen on the notebook, then closing the notebook...).
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This is true for most electronics. If they do not fail immediately, they typically run for years.

dyn said:
LG-Philips however does not exist any more. Philips withdrew, it is now LG-only. Completely different company now.
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Careful, introducing facts into an emotional, subjective, thread that is devoid of facts can result in emotional reactions.:D Also, it's a fact that one person's experience with a product makes that experience universal across that manufacturer's entire product line for all time.
 
I've got the LG display and what bothers me the most isn't the washed colors, it's the backlighting. The left side of my screen is noticeably brighter than the right side. Most people wouldn't notice this, but I did and it's been nagging me since day one. I live in Brazil, so a trip to the apple store for a chat with a genius is out of question: there are no apple stores here.

I'd send it back, but the fear of getting an even worse unit is holding me back. Also, I'm extremely picky, so chances are I'll just find something else to complain about if I get a replacement.
 
Gustavo Carvalh said:
I've got the LG display and what bothers me the most isn't the washed colors, it's the backlighting. The left side of my screen is noticeably brighter than the right side. Most people wouldn't notice this, but I did and it's been nagging me since day one. I live in Brazil, so a trip to the apple store for a chat with a genius is out of question: there are no apple stores here.

I'd send it back, but the fear of getting an even worse unit is holding me back. Also, I'm extremely picky, so chances are I'll just find something else to complain about if I get a replacement.
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Is there backlight bleeding or is the backlight not uniform? Since you are probably planning on looking at this screen for a few years, it might be worth getting a replacement.
 
MacBird said:
Is there backlight bleeding or is the backlight not uniform? Since you are probably planning on looking at this screen for a few years, it might be worth getting a replacement.
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The backlight was very uneven. I didn't notice any backlight bleeding. I went to the shop to triple check that I wasn't being too picky and could verify that my display was indeed bad. Since I wasn't happy with the squeaky space bar either, I sent it back to apple.
 
Haust said:
I agree. "I had some friends over and tossed them a pair of 13-inch MBAs. One had the LG panel and one had the Samsung panel. They used the MBAs and swapped after a short while. Almost instantaneously they could tell the difference between the panels. Everyone significantly favored the Samsung."

I made the right choice returning my LG MBA.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6063/macbook-air-13inch-mid-2012-review/3
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after your return how can you guarantee that your next mba will have a samsung display?
 
Haust said:
I agree. "I had some friends over and tossed them a pair of 13-inch MBAs. One had the LG panel and one had the Samsung panel. They used the MBAs and swapped after a short while. Almost instantaneously they could tell the difference between the panels. Everyone significantly favored the Samsung."

I made the right choice returning my LG MBA.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6063/macbook-air-13inch-mid-2012-review/3
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A few paragraphs later he says that calibrating makes it difficult to tell the difference. I purchased a Spyder3 a few years ago and it has worked well.
 
Haust said:
I agree. "I had some friends over and tossed them a pair of 13-inch MBAs. One had the LG panel and one had the Samsung panel. They used the MBAs and swapped after a short while. Almost instantaneously they could tell the difference between the panels. Everyone significantly favored the Samsung."

I made the right choice returning my LG MBA.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6063/macbook-air-13inch-mid-2012-review/3
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I must be blind. I had a Samsung and an LG next to one another and I couldn't tell the difference. Neither could my wife. We started at them for fifteen minutes, and went through all sorts of screens. They looked the same to me.
 
tim100 said:
after your return how can you guarantee that your next mba will have a samsung display?
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I couldn't. It was a gamble, but I got what I wanted, thankfully. I was unhappy with the LG display as soon as I turned it on for the first time. I didn't have a calibration tool at the time so I just tried the different profiles floating around. To me, they didn't help enough to say the display was on par with the Samsung displays at the Apple store. Mostly, in regards to the way text was displayed. To me, text looked too gray and unsharp no matter the calibration. Others will disagree, but to me the different was significant. The 2 Apple employees agreed with me too, by the way.

I'm using the default profile on my MBA and it looks terrific. I ended up getting a Spyder 4 Pro, just to be certain, but to be honest, I didn't like the profiles it was giving any better than the default profile. If the LG has to be calibrated to look good than Apple should bundle this service with the LG display models.
 
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