rMBP Mid 2014 Yellow Tint

[blutech]

Hi guys Im hoping a couple of you will be able to help me out. This is my first Macbook, and i've only had it for less than a few days, so the prospect that things may not be right with it is disheartening to say the least.

I only noticed the difference in colour once I hooked it up to my TV via a HDMI cable, and was surprised how vastly different the whites look. The colour profile on my Mac is set to the default LCD and I've already checked for bad sectors using ImagSync, and got the clear.

Is this normal, or is their something wrong with my MacBook?

 

[poematik13]

your TV and your laptop are set to entirely different color spaces (sRGB on your laptop and 709 on your TV). Additionally, both of them probably aren't calibrated to match each other, or even calibrated at all.

So there really is no objective benchmark to rely on when saying this screen is yellow or that screen looks "normal", etc. welcome to the cruel world of color management.

adjust your macbooks screen settings in system preferences > display > color > calibrate. it'll walk you through some steps to get your screen looking better.

that being said, rMBP's do have a tendency to have a yellow bias, so if it bugs you a lot you can always go through replacement units until you find one thats acceptable

 

[blutech]

your TV and your laptop are set to entirely different color spaces (sRGB on your laptop and 709 on your TV). Additionally, both of them probably aren't calibrated to match each other, or even calibrated at all.

So there really is no objective benchmark to rely on when saying this screen is yellow or that screen looks "normal", etc. welcome to the cruel world of color management.

adjust your macbooks screen settings in system preferences > display > color > calibrate. it'll walk you through some steps to get your screen looking better.

that being said, rMBP's do have a tendency to have a yellow bias, so if it bugs you a lot you can always go through replacement units until you find one thats acceptable

Thanks, but I don't see how it would matter in if the colour profiles matched. Clearly there's a single accurate colour profile that matches printing standards, so only one would be the correct one. In this instance the profile on the MacBook looks really off.

Im worried if replacement units will have the same problem.

 

[johndellis]

Thanks, but I don't see how it would matter in if the colour profiles matched. Clearly there's a single accurate colour profile that matches printing standards, so only one would be the correct one. In this instance the profile on the MacBook looks really off.

Im worried if replacement units will have the same problem.

There is nothing wrong with your macbook. The default profile on your mac sets the temperature to about 6500* whereas your TV is probably set to 9300* or higher. It will definitely appear warmer, or "yellow" as you say. My rMBP looks "yellow" compared to my TV directly also.

 

[haafling]

This is a common issue, well documented in the community (see here https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1660649/).

I've got a yellow tint too, I calibrated the screen and now it looks ok (though it's not perfect), even some of the in-store model seems to have this problem.

Btw, most of the screens you see everyday (unless you work in a image related business) are cooler than they should be, so the rMPB appears really warm next to the others.

 

[sickducker]

It's a matter of calibration. Mine also had a slight yellow tint, but it looks great after calibration. I never had a screen without a tint, most of them were too cold.

 

[vjobs]

Mine 2014 15" is fine, but also looked a bit warm.. After calibration its perfect in any way. If it bothers you, go and exchange it