Macbook air lg display horrible!!!!! Text reading is a headache!!!

[reputationZed]

Move over, it's a threesome.

Sorry buddy, your number four.

 

[ZBoater]

Sorry buddy, your number four.

Ratz! Late to the party, again!

 

[DeusInvictus7]

How is Apple's warranty different than any other manufacturer's warranty? Every consumer electronics company has a 1 year limited warranty. That's just standard. And if you want more of a warranty, then there's AppleCare, which you can buy anytime before the 1 year ends.

Anyway, back on topic. I have an LG display as well, and I find it to be just fine after calibrating.

 

[DarwinOSX]

Lenovo made Thinkpads are junk. The IPS display they used on is awful.

There is nothing wrong with the LG displays either.

You need to get a Lenovo X201 or X200 Tablet with the Outdoor 400Nit LCD. It's the best IPS you can get in a laptop. They are only available used now. Puts any Macbook screen to shame.

http://www.thinkpads.com/2009/10/15...ad-x200-tablet-with-outdoor-viewable-display/

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[dmg89]

How do you find out what display you have??

 

[Azathoth]

How do you find out what display you have??

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1192807/

And remember that most people are ignorant and don't know how to calibrate a display or judge its characteristics.

E.g. if the person has done a calibration with only their eyeballs and SW (rather than a HW profiler), then their opinion is *meaningless*

 

[chandeliho]

I have a LG panel, and I stumbled upon a website that causes flickering on the display. The header image of that website is green and causes a headache.

I made a copy of it arrayed for maximum flickering

I viewed this image on a couple of other LCD monitors and saw no flickering whatsoever, so I think it's a problem with the LG panel. I'm taking it back to the store tomorrow to see what they can do about it.

 

[2IS]

Lenovo made Thinkpads are junk. The IPS display they used on is awful.

There is nothing wrong with the LG displays either.

But what would a non apple fanboy say?

 

[misterneums]

But what would a non apple fanboy say?

That they're alright machines, but apple is better?

 

[squaremon]

I have a LG panel, and I stumbled upon a website that causes flickering on the display. The header image of that website is green and causes a headache.

I made a copy of it arrayed for maximum flickering

http://i.imgur.com/zPilY.jpg

I viewed this image on a couple of other LCD monitors and saw no flickering whatsoever, so I think it's a problem with the LG panel. I'm taking it back to the store tomorrow to see what they can do about it.

thats.... have u tested on samsung panel on this?

 

[chandeliho]

thats.... have u tested on samsung panel on this?

Nope, I hope to do that at the store. Does anyone here have a samsung and can view the pic?

 

[MRU]

OP, if you feel yourself struggling to read try entering this in terminal:


defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 2

or this:

defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 3

Out of interest what does that do ? turn off FontSmoothing or such ?

 

[squaremon]

I have a LG panel, and I stumbled upon a website that causes flickering on the display. The header image of that website is green and causes a headache.

I made a copy of it arrayed for maximum flickering

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I viewed this image on a couple of other LCD monitors and saw no flickering whatsoever, so I think it's a problem with the LG panel. I'm taking it back to the store tomorrow to see what they can do about it.

Nope, I hope to do that at the store. Does anyone here have a samsung and can view the pic?

Just my own thoughts, but I think this applies to both LG or Samsung because they r both TN panel. If the flicker only occurs on LG then there's gonna be loads of exchange on this week

 

[squaremon]

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Ok I just checked my girlfriends 2010 MacBook which also has a LG display and the image dosen't flicker. So I think it might just be the TN panel on MBA

 

[pollaxe]

Ugh, that green flickering image does look awful on my LG display. I've tried in Safari, Firefox, Chrome & Preview & it gives the same effect.

I'd be interested to see if Samsung panel owners have the same, I'm expecting that they will but I'd like confirmation of it.

I do have an Apple Mini Display Port to Dual Link DVI converter box which I could try on a couple of other LCDs I own at home but as I'm at work, that won't be before this evening...

 

[drxcm]

How about these ones?

It's called cross-talk. Common issue with LCD's. How are the Samsung's out there?

Check this out ... urghh!

http://www.techmind.org/lcd/crosstalk2.html

 

[squaremon]

It's called cross-talk. Common issue with LCD's. How are the Samsung's out there?

Check this out ... urghh!

http://www.techmind.org/lcd/crosstalk2.html

nice! thx for the lesson.
I guess i should post a new thread to see if samsung panel owners has same issue with cross-talk

 

[jackyyeow]

How it is flickering? I don't see any flickering when idling on that weird yellow-green picture, but it does flicker when I scroll. Same with the crosstalk page.

 

[smokedog]

How it is flickering? I don't see any flickering when idling on that weird yellow-green picture, but it does flicker when I scroll. Same with the crosstalk page.

I'm viewing the image on a MBP and same result as above. Only flickers when scrolling.

 

[mixman]

Flickers annoyingly by default, no need to scroll around. MBA 13", LG-panel.

 

[squaremon]

Flickers annoyingly by default, no need to scroll around. MBA 13", LG-panel.

Mine flickers too without scrolling. 13" LG MBA

 

[yao]

2010 mba 11" with the samsung panel, no flickering.

 

[TheRealDamager]

I would be shocked if this flickering behavior didn't happen on any MBA screen. This long debate between screens is really silly - I've used both versions on the new Air for at least a week each, and there is very little difference. Honestly - if you had both sitting in front of you and they were both properly calibrated, I would bet cash money that you couldn't tell the difference.

 

[yao]

I would be shocked if this flickering behavior didn't happen on any MBA screen. This long debate between screens is really silly - I've used both versions on the new Air for at least a week each, and there is very little difference. Honestly - if you had both sitting in front of you and they were both properly calibrated, I would bet cash money that you couldn't tell the difference.

I have a 2011 lg 11" mba and a 2010 samsung 11" mba on hand. The lg flickers, samsung one does not.

 

[jackyyeow]

I have a 2011 lg 11" mba and a 2010 samsung 11" mba on hand. The lg flickers, samsung one does not.

Uh oh, tomorrow Apple is going to receive tons of return units because of flickering phenomenon?