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So I recently purchased a 27" iMac (purchased it last week) and have hooked up my previous monitor, a 24" Apple LCD cinema display (aluminum enclosure) to have a dual-monitor setup.
Both are using Apple's stock color profiles, but the LCD cinema display is much more yellow than the iMac's display.
I tried setting the LCD display to use the iMac's color profile without any luck (it didn't get rid of the yellow tint).
I assumed Apple would have them using the same color settings, but alas it seems that isn't the case.
So, what should I do to get them to have matching color profiles?

i have the same problem too...with the same imac 27" i7 like josh..hello josh?
the only different is my imac hooked up to 20" LCD cinema display (aluminum enclosure)
yap true josh, its more yellow in the secondary monitor..even with the same color profile.
i mainly use my imac for motion graphic n post production stuffs...its really annoy me for cannot find the match color for this two screens... ;(
hope somebody can show us the solution for this problem...

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