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The display in the new MBP

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c8y

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Dec 7, 2016
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A week ago I bought a nTB MBP. I love the form factor, I like the device in many ways, but the display bothers me somehow.
I cannot find a comfortable brightness level, especially in the evening. It is either too dim or too bright and hurts my eyes.
Has anyone experienced something similar? Or it is just me - my device or my eyes?

The other thing is the refresh rate. Sometimes it feels like it's refreshing with the lower rate. I started googling and found that the new panels use a variable refresh rate to save the battery. Do you notice something similar on your Macbooks?
 
I have the 15" tb mbp and I usually ran my brightness on my 2015 13" at 40% but on this laptop Im running at 60%
 
Maybe I should have been more precise, I was talking about 2016 13-inch non-touchbar MPB. 2014 MBP I have at work is perfectly fine.
 
c8y said:
A week ago I bought a nTB MBP. I love the form factor, I like the device in many ways, but the display bothers me somehow.
I cannot find a comfortable brightness level, especially in the evening. It is either too dim or too bright and hurts my eyes.
Has anyone experienced something similar? Or it is just me - my device or my eyes?

The other thing is the refresh rate. Sometimes it feels like it's refreshing with the lower rate. I started googling and found that the new panels use a variable refresh rate to save the battery. Do you notice something similar on your Macbooks?
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Yes, I find this to be a minor annoyance of this laptop. Not sure what it is, it feels washed out to me from the factory and I am not confident in how to adjust the color setting to my liking. But I know what you are referring to, I feel the same way at time.

Although, disclaimer I am awaiting my first set of glasses to come in so I will reserve judgement until then. But it does seem a little washed out, and I don't see how anyone could look at this screen at fill brightness because it would burn out my retinas. Maybe thats why they refer to it as a Retina display.
 
I have the same issue at night. It's not comfortable on the eyes at all. This has now turned into my biggest annoyance and am considering returning the system.
 
I have been experiencing the same thing. The display strains my eyes, and I continuously toggle the brightness back and forth. I did not have these issues with my 2012 MBP so I figured it was my eyes adjusting to the Retina Display. It has been two weeks of this eye strain and it is not noticeably better.
 
Dick Whitman said:
Use f.lux. Problem solved.
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The "Dark Room" setting is the only thing I use F.lux for. It turns everything red/black, which is much easier on the eyes at night.

I think Shady is better, as it actually allows the display to be lowered further than the default limit.
 
David58117 said:
The "Dark Room" setting is the only thing I use F.lux for. It turns everything red/black, which is much easier on the eyes at night.

I think Shady is better, as it actually allows the display to be lowered further than the default limit.
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Thanks for the pro tip. Usually I just use the recommended colors but I will try the dark room setting.
 
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