In all honesty from experience, if you're happy with your display, do not look it up. It is easy to fall into this trap of analyzing every little cm of light bleed and unevenly lit backlights and stuff like that on a different color back ground, etc. I think it would be better just to enjoy and go wow, what a great value the mbp jr. is now.
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In all honesty from experience, if you're happy with your display, do not look it up. It is easy to fall into this trap of analyzing every little cm of light bleed and unevenly lit backlights and stuff like that on a different color back ground, etc. I think it would be better just to enjoy and go wow, what a great value the mbp jr. is now.
Also consider that purply blue may be the way it was supposed to look all along, and that you were just never seeing it right on the old MB screen. There was a website I frequent that I thought used a black and blue color scheme until one day I added a Desktop LCD panel to my laptop and realized it was black and purple. Sure enough once I noticed this, I saw that it looked more purple than blue on other computers with better gamut displays as well. It was my old laptop screen that was seeing things "wrong".
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I have the same problem. See my thread: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/716467/
Let me know if you try to exchange yours. I might give it a go this weekend.
9C9E here.
It's washed out a tad, but no way as bad as the late '08 MBs. I'm dealing with a .5" streak on the right side of my screen.
9C9E here too, find the display to be very good! I see here what you mean by washed out - maybe it's better to see most of the contrast range, dark and bright - though I prefer it also a little more crisp, but that was easy to achieve by creating a new monitor profile in expert mode = super crisp screen.
No problem with streak here though.
Coming from an 2.4 unibody 13", this display is simply stunning to my eyes.
Besides the purple link issue, do you see scroll distortion for example when visiting http://www.apple.com/startpage/. Drag the aqua scroll bar by scrolling up and down, and observe the gray background section near the bottom of the page. I'm trying to determine if this is graphics chip related issue or LCD screen issue?
I still can't figure out how to find the type of screen I have from those instructions (newbie), but it is def nicer then the UMB they had in store... Though I do have 1 dead pixel underneath the mail icon, but I think I can live with it rather then swapping it.
Go to Color Sync Utility > Displays > Open Displays > Click Color LCD > At "Factory Profile" on the right side of the window click on Open > in the new window scroll to the second last entry and click on "Apple display make..." > there you've got manufacturer and model.
Cheers from 9C9E
9CBD for me and it's perfect. It looks just as good as my 15 MBP to me. Had to calibrate it tho and now I'm so pleased.
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Just updated my original post to include more screen models. Thanks for your input guys.
Just updated my original post to include more screen models. Thanks for your input guys.
9C9E here and my blues are purple and greens are florescent.
Links are supposed to be blue, without question, but these are very purple.
Going to either have to figure out how to calibrate it appropriately or switch to something else.
Links are supposed to be blue, without question, but these are very purple.
Going to either have to figure out how to calibrate it appropriately or switch to something else.
I got 9CBD after exchanging my uMB with 9CA8 (it was the improved AU optronics panel that was pretty much perfect, even better than the 9C8C)
My yellows, greens and blues are fluorescent. The screen is washed out. Absolutely look horrible coming off my uMB. From my experience with multiple uMB, you want to get a AU optronics panel and in the case of 13'' MBP that means 9C9F I believe.
My yellows, greens and blues are fluorescent. The screen is washed out. Absolutely look horrible coming off my uMB. From my experience with multiple uMB, you want to get a AU optronics panel and in the case of 13'' MBP that means 9C9F I believe.
Thanks for the confirmation. I went to Apple Store today and noticed all the models 13, 15, or 17 (glassy or matte) on display all had the scroll distortion about 2/3rd way down the screen. It only appears when scroll up and down under certain speed. The page transition feels like ripple effect on the screen. I thought this issue should have been addressed by Apple now after 10.5.5 with Nvidia graphics chip! Here is a link on the issue:9C9E here without any of these issues: flawless
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1754963&tstart=0
Apple Store was willing to swap another 9CBD unit for me, I'll settle with this one for now (until we sort out the 13" UMBP SATA 1.5 Gigabit issue)!
For your information:
First Unit:
- 9C9E (Week 22, 2009), SN: W8923***** (Week 23 unit)
- LTN133AT09 (Samsung)
- Color info:
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Red x = 0.640 Green x = 0.310 Blue x = 0.150 White x = 0.313
Red y = 0.330 Green y = 0.610 Blue y = 0.055 White y = 0.329
Second Unit:
- 9CBD (Week 3, 2009), SN: W8922***** (Week 22 unit)
- LP133WX3_TLA1 (LG-Philips)
- Color info:
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Red x = 0.000 Green x = 0.000 Blue x = 0.000 White x = 0.312
Red y = 0.000 Green y = 0.000 Blue y = 0.000 White y = 0.328
The above data were obtained using SwitchResX Control.
Both 9C9E and 9CBD screens are bright which are comparable to updated MBA, 15/17" UMBP with default Color Profile. 9CBD is perfect to my eyes, deep black and bright white, no purple on blue, no lines as seen on MBA. I preferred the overall coloration of 9CBD unit, hence keeping it for now.
From my personal experience and others here it sounds like your 9CBD was lemon. Best of luck getting a good display.
I have the 9C9E model. There is significant backlight bleed along the bottom, links are indeed purple as other users have stated, and i also have the weird lines around the edges that some others are having with this panel.. already booked an appointment for the genius bar tomorrow.... I almost prefer 9C8C panel at this point
I haven't yet read all the replies to this thread but my 13" MBP is washed out! Blues look blue purple and browns (for example the calendar) looks like a gradient where it turns more and more orange as it nears the top. Greens also looks odd, it's just plain off.
I thought I was going crazy when i unboxed my computer...
Do your browns look almost orange?