New MacBook Air display has same 6 bit color? I bet it does.
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.
You want 8 bit color? Plug in a CinemaHD or a Dell VA or IPS panel.
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Marty,
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Joan Amat wrote:
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Shut down the computer.
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Reset Password starting from Recovery HD
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About NVRAM and PRAM
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379
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We only have one copy of iTunes and we have been sharing the account. (She doesn't really use the computer for anything beyond writing the odd weekend assignment.)
Would I be better off setting her up with her own and making her as a separate user on the computer? Would this require much work?
In recent times with updates, we have a few problems with the duplication of texts and that sort of thing. Both of our texts are stored on the computer and that sort of thing. Also, sometimes texts I send her are sent through to me from her, if that makes any sense.
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Here is the screen shot, just the top half, there are another 10 pages, but I guess this should enough for you to have an idea of waht is going on, bit small I am afraid. No, I don't have any apps setup to run when I open my computer, the kernel, varies between 290 and 305 per cent ish.
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