Thanks for understanding. It surprises me sometimes how many people experience similar headaches from these products.Maybe if you turn the brightness up it would reduce the flickering on the MBP?
What were you doing that the performance felt constrained on the M2 MBA? I am curious because beyond workloads the device was not designed for my experience was the opposite?
I am sorry about your eye strain. I had a similar experience with the 16" M1 Max MBP.
I recently tried installing QuikShade, which acts as a sort of color filter to dim the display. I'll keep the brightness level at 50% and see if that helps. The only issue is that the undimmed brightness can still be seen when switching desktops, and the cursor isn't dimmed which at least looks cool. I would happily use this workaround if there was no PWM above 50% like some of Apple's recent MacBook Air/MacBook Pro models which do use a high-frequency PWM at lower brightnesses. I'm nonetheless optimistic that Apple will offer a better alternative next time there is a major design change to the MacBook Pro.
To be honest even the interface seemed to drop frames with multiple apps open, which leads me to believe that these devices really necessitate 16GB of RAM for all but the lightest workloads.
Edit: The brightness workaround didn't seem to help as I still notice nearly instant headaches, but keeping the brightness higher does nonetheless seem to be more comfortable in terms of flickering.
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