I had the first aluminum macbook 2.0 as well. The screen was not nearly as nice as this 9cc2. Contrast was very poor. Also, i don't believe it was signicantly brighter. I'm staying with this one myself.
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MBP 13" Screen 9CC2
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I had the first aluminum macbook 2.0 as well. The screen was not nearly as nice as this 9cc2. Contrast was very poor. Also, i don't believe it was signicantly brighter. I'm staying with this one myself.
I got my 13" 2.53 MBP on Friday (took you long enough to get it to me, Apple!) and I've got this display...the contrast is fantastic but colors don't seem as true as on my Dell XPS M1330 with LED screen.
I tried the calibration profile pratap21 posted on the first page and that made it worse (blue should not look purple) so I went back to default.
I'll have to mess with the calibration and try to get it tuned right.
And yes, it does seem a bit dim.
I tried the calibration profile pratap21 posted on the first page and that made it worse (blue should not look purple) so I went back to default.
I'll have to mess with the calibration and try to get it tuned right.
And yes, it does seem a bit dim.
Did yours have 9c89 or 9c8c?
Maybe your 9cc2 is brighter than mine.
Do you work with 18/20 19/20 brightness during the day inside the house?
Not sure what you mean by 18/20? I posted some puctures in another thread with my macbook pro 15" next to my new 13". I'm on my iphone but when I get home i'll post a link. To me and my wife the brigtness differnce between the two isn't much. However i our opinion the colors on 13" are better.
I like this one, but I'm not really sure what the colors are supposed to look like.
Also got a 9CC2 this week.
1 step from top brightness is ~200 cd/m.
2 steps from top it is ~160 cd/m.
Bright enough for me.
Actually, the display is very good, but it has to be calibrated. Otherwise the colours are horrible.
Here's my ICC-profile (used DTP94 for it)...
1 step from top brightness is ~200 cd/m.
2 steps from top it is ~160 cd/m.
Bright enough for me.
Actually, the display is very good, but it has to be calibrated. Otherwise the colours are horrible.
Here's my ICC-profile (used DTP94 for it)...
Wow you can measure brightness... So max is 205 cd/m or so?
I agree bright enough for inside, not for outside with sunlight. Thanks for your profile, I'll try it.
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Do you happen to know how that compares to the other 13" screens out there. How do you measure it by the way?
Notebookjournal.de and Notebookcheck have published measurements.
However, I don't think every 9CC2 (or 9BCD etc) has the same brightness. There's no way mine is 250 cd/m in the middle. I have a lot of notebooks here and a fairly good idea of how bright they are.
I had a Late 2008-Unibody-MacBook before, but never cared about the manufacturer of the screen and which brightness it had. In fact, it was much brighter compared to the 9CC2 directly, but colours and viewing angles were not half that good.
Measuring the luminance I used X-rite DTP94/Silver Haze Pro incl. iColor Display by Quato: http://quato.de/english/shp.php
Yes much nicer. Thanks for that. Could you also make a profile with more like the TV gamma?
PS. You seem to know a lot about displays. Can you tell me why the display is twice as bright under windows XP?
Felt the same way. This profile looked really washed out on my 9CC2 display.
Edit: Oops, didn't see you posted another to try. It's much better. Thanks!