New Macbook air display being washed out -- faded colors.

I have a new 2012 intel i5 128 running Lion 10.7.2. I have tried every adjustment that I am aware of: contrast settings; color calibration; brightness. But the display just looks faded. Next to my older Macbook Pro it looks really bad. I read on other blogs that several people have reported the same problem but there doesn't seem to be any solution. Advise?
thx,
Malthus

I have been researching the macbook air as I'm thinking of buying one. I found a story that the display can be made by either Samsum or LG. And the LG may appear not as good, but it is a matter of fixing some obscure settings, not really an LG hardware deficiency. See:
http://osxdaily.com/2011/10/30/how-to-check-for-an-lg-display-in-a-macbook-air-a nd-make-it-look-better/
(this is not the only article on this topic)
It all seems to involve hairy command line stuff however, so I suggest you google around the topic (macbook air LG versus Samsung displays) a bit more and be ready to restore your system if you try it and it ends in tears.
Good luck.

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Sadly, all we have for color depth in the tech specs is the same old 'support for millions of colors' which we know in the past to have been a total lie. All the laptop displays have been 6 bit color, 262,144 colors, period. A great article on 6 bit versus 8 bit color can be found at:
http://compreviews.about.com/od/multimedia/a/LCDColor.htm
The tech specs for the new laptops don't indicate any improvement.
And yes, the displays use dithering to fake millions of colors. Yes, all displays use mixing of RGB colors to fool the eye into seeing millions of colors. And yes, not one laptop display I am aware of, including PCs, has adequate color depth to allow any real color matching for professional use. Use a high end external display for color matching purposes. CRTs are still considered adequate if not superior for this purpose.

Umm...
Every laptop has 6bit colors. There aren't any 8bit laptop panels that Apple could use infact. Except for some very new 17" ones...
The thing is, 8 bit panels use more power and are regarded by most of the industry as overkill for laptops.
Anyway I repeat, there are no 13" 8bit panels in existence.
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Can I trade my MacBook Air for a new MacBook Air that just came out?

I was wondering that I bought the MacBook Air in November of 2010 and I would like to get the new MacBook Air can I just do a trade from Best Buy or Apply?

Well... you can return your Air as part of Apple's recycle program and get an Apple Gift Card for it's value. Unfortunately, they (well, a company that does this sort of thing) sets the "value" which is nothing close to what you would be able to get on your own:
http://www.apple.com/recycling/computer/
I don't think anyone intended to insult you. You sort of implied in your original post that you should be able to exchange something that you purchased 8 months ago. In fairness, I'm aware of very few places that offer a return policy that liberal. When you clarified that you could pay up front to be guaranteed a certain percentage of the original value over time... that certainly made more sense (although Apple does not offer the exact thing... but only what I had posted the link to above).
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MY NEW MACBOOK AIR IS HEATING UP AND ITS BATTERY IS DRAINING OUT REALLY FAST. WHAT TO DO? I BOUGHT IT JUST 5 DAYS AGO.

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It's quite possible, since you are using an MBA without Firewire, that it could take that long.
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Rosetta supports "software that runs on the PowerPC G3, G4, or G5 processor that are built for Mac OS X". This excludes the items that are not universal binaries or simply will not work in Rosetta:
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Additional links that will be helpful to new Intel-Mac users:
Intel In Macs
Apple Guide to Universal Applications
MacInTouch List of Compatible Universal Binaries
MacInTouch List of Rosetta Compatible Applications
MacUpdate List of Intel-Compatible Software
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>In your /Home/ folder: Documents, Movies, Music, Pictures, and Sites folders.
>
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>/Home/Library/Application Support/iCal (copy the whole folder)
>Also in /Home/Library/Application Support (copy whatever else you need including folders for any third-party applications)
>
>/Home/Library/Keychains (copy the whole folder)
>/Home/Library/Mail (copy the whole folder)
>/Home/Library/Preferences/ (copy the whole folder)
>/Home /Library/Calendars (copy the whole folder)
>/Home /Library/iTunes (copy the whole folder)
>/Home /Library/Safari (copy the whole folder)
>
>If you want cookies:
>
>/Home/Library/Cookies/Cookies.plist
>/Home/Library/Application Support/WebFoundation/HTTPCookies.plist
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>For Entourage users:
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I am trying to install iphoto 09 on my new MacBook Air and the install button is grayed out. Both for installation and custom install. Is there a problem that I am not aware of?

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I'm relatively new to Mac and want to try and get the most out of the new MacBook Air.
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