Poor 12" iBook display?

[Demon Hunter]

Hi guys, my dad just bought a 12" iBook for work. He doesn't seem to care much, but his display seems very shoddy. I compared it to my 17" PowerBook and it was a sad sight to behold. The lower part of the screen seems darker, and even with the same color profiles (sRGB) the iBook seems to have a pinkish hue. The brightness is also poor compared to the PowerBook, but that is to be expected, right?

I also compared it with a 1.0GHz 12" PowerBook (Rev. B), and the brightness of the iBook was better, thank goodness.

Is this standard fare for 12" iBooks?

 

[finalcoolman]

Yup

 

[stefan15]

Isn't sRGB always somewhat "pinkish" when compared to 9300K [are the PB's 9300K?]

 

[NewSc2]

uh huh, the Powerbook display is one of the best I've seen. At least Mac OSX looks better than Windows XP in general, so 12" iBook doesn't look *that* bad~

 

[skubish]

My only complaint about my ibook is that the screen is not super bright. It is bright enough for general use but sometimes I would like it brighter. I thought the 12"PB looked no different than the 12" iBook. I sure the 17"PB is better though.

 

[mkrishnan]

You really ought to manually calibrate it rather than using sRGB before you draw conclusions... In any event though, I have been very happy with the correspondence between my iBook screen and digital prints, with some calibration effort. I actually think the color is more believable than the 1905FP in the lab, although the latter is obviously much brighter.