Apple is one of those asinine companies that has been putting LEDs on pulse width modulators for years. After all, that's how the white LED does that snoozing routine, basically it just flashes the LED faster (to make it appear brighter), and then slower (to make it appear dimmer).
The LED backlights work the same damn way, unfortunately.
I've noticed a lot of newer CCFL backlit screens have the "flicker" problem quite badly too! I'm not sure if it's just that they moved from oldschool inverters to newer PWM types or something, but I get headaches from using new LCDs below max brightness.
I also still disagree with the notion that aluminum frame LCDs don't look like Macs, they are the original Mac look. The first company that I can recall making a silver laptop with an LCD inset in a black frame was Toshiba, and then HP.
It's definitely nothing new. Even the edge-to-edge thing has been done for many years by other manufacturers, but Apple was the first to my knowledge to do it with a piece of glass instead of a piece of plastic.
The LED backlights work the same damn way, unfortunately.
I've noticed a lot of newer CCFL backlit screens have the "flicker" problem quite badly too! I'm not sure if it's just that they moved from oldschool inverters to newer PWM types or something, but I get headaches from using new LCDs below max brightness.
I also still disagree with the notion that aluminum frame LCDs don't look like Macs, they are the original Mac look. The first company that I can recall making a silver laptop with an LCD inset in a black frame was Toshiba, and then HP.
It's definitely nothing new. Even the edge-to-edge thing has been done for many years by other manufacturers, but Apple was the first to my knowledge to do it with a piece of glass instead of a piece of plastic.