I *think* I might have a lineless PB
Unfortunately I already made the decision to wait for an intel PB and therefore purchased upgrades to my current 1.33 12" over xmas. (New battery, ram & etc)
Story was, this is my 4th PB from amazon and they shipped it out late so I had a friend pick it up while I was away from my house. He said it had the lines so I decided to say *screw it* to the PBs and wait for the next iteration. Well my mistake, I decided to boot it up tonight and the screen surprisingly didn't show any lines at all.
I first thought it was a contrast issue because he might have messed around with it so I went into colorsync and reset it to color LCD.
Re-ran the crankycat image . . . . no wavyness in the top orange box, no banding in the darker orange box, no lines on the first corndog or display pic, banding that did not disappear on the 2nd set of pics. Rebooted and ran updates. Same thing . . . . no visible lines.
This PB is close to perfect. Fit and finish is superb, no keyboard or trackpad issues like my other ones had, superquiet seagate drive, screen appears to be line-less . . . . only issue is a DOA battery. Very hard to return it since I have been dealing with exchanging it and etc for 1.5 months. I am contacting my friend tomorrow to ask about these "lines" that he saw, but this is nothing like the three other ones I returned. If I had received this one to begin with, I would have definetely kept it.
Here's the info . . . another w8544 model . . . same as the other three that I got from amazon. A sticker on the box says 2005/10/27 . . . . other ones that I received had that same date or 10/28.
I am honestly really quite puzzled with this . . . . kinda disappointed too . . . . after purchasing the upgrades to my 12", it's not really worth it to sell it and keep the 15".
I do have a digicam, for those that may want me to snap up close pics of the screen. It is a canon SD450 which I recently acquired . . . . not sure how to get the detail of other up-close pics I've seen. If anyone has any pointers or etc, i'll gladly try to take the pics. The first few I tried just looked like nothing.
Dave
Hi Dave,
Happy new year and have fun with your perfect PB. I personally would keep it.
Pictures of your line less PB can really be useful for us, if you take the same kind of picture as the ones taken by Chloro and JFelbab. These pictures have been made using the blue acqua apple background (with swirling curve), using macro mode. The interesting pictures are the one showing the subpixels (red, green, blue). For examples see
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=1422677#1422677
I guess you may have to set up your canon powershot that way :
use manual setting, remove flash, push the function set button
digital macro mode
spot
Fine
Large.
zoom at the maximum (X4), put your camera at the sufficiant distance to clearly see the VERTICAL banding, and shoot.
Then you would be get the squared nature of the pixel and in zooming the subpixel level.
I would be very interested to look at one of your pictures.
Luc
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