Macbook pro isight quality problems anyone?
Hi,
Is anyone facing problems with the quality of the isight camera on the retina macbook pro?
It feels like the image is very badly compressed and the outcome is muddy and not smooth.
My old Imac at 640x480 had a much better image? is it worth sending it back for replacement or do you think this is an OS issue which will be resolved?
Thanks in advance for any help.
If:
(1) the image of a static, constantly lighted, subject shown from your iSight is changing color as you watch it,
and
(2) you have not added any third party software to manually control your iSight (example: iGlasses)
then yours is likely a hardware problem that will require professional service by an Apple-Authorized Service Provider.
If Apple's troubleshooting suggestions from http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2090 don't correct your problem, (be sure to test more than one app in more than one user account,) make a current backup of all your important files and then see your AASP for service.
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Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C.
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☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
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9. If you see an error message in the Terminal window such as "Syntax error" or "Event not found," enter
exec bash
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If you're not logged in as an administrator, you won't be prompted for a password. The test will still run. It just won't do anything that requires administrator privileges.
11. The test may take a few minutes to run, depending on how many files you have and the speed of the computer. A computer that's abnormally slow may take longer to run the test. While it's running, there will be nothing in the Terminal window and no indication of progress. Wait for the line
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12. When the test is complete, quit Terminal. The results will have been copied to the Clipboard automatically. They are not shown in the Terminal window. Please don't copy anything from there. All you have to do is start a reply to this comment and then paste by pressing command-V again.
At the top of the results, there will be a line that begins with the words "Start time." If you don't see that, but instead see a mass of gibberish, you didn't wait for the "Process completed" message to appear in the Terminal window. Please wait for it and try again.
If any private information, such as your name or email address, appears in the results, anonymize it before posting. Usually that won't be necessary.
13. When you post the results, you might see an error message on the web page: "You have included content in your post that is not permitted," or "You are not authorized to post." That's a bug in the forum software. Please post the test results on Pastebin, then post a link here to the page you created.
14. This is a public forum, and others may give you advice based on the results of the test. They speak only for themselves, and I don't necessarily agree with them.
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Macbook Pro Retina Display problems.
Hi I recently purchased the Macbook Pro with Retina Display. I noticed that there is a verticle line running from each side of the screen. I doesn't seem to affect the display quality. I just wanted to know if anyone else has it and if it could lead to a problem in the future...
HI,
I bought a MBP with retina yesterday. There are some signs about low quality of display. I have two brightening vertical line in middle of display, and right side of display has little bit different colour (mainly white) liken left side.
The APR doesn't want change this machine.
I think about Apple uses worse and worse displays in last years. You can find that picture about phenomenon here:
http://kozmetikuskepzes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/IMG_2747.jpg -
MacBook Pro - Canon printer problem.
Question
I have a 13inch MacBook Pro and a Canon iP4500 printer. My problem is that using the latest Canon drivers I am unable to set the printer driver properties - printing quality etc.
Does anyone out there know how to do this.
I am running Photoshop Elements 8 and trying to print from the editor. The photos print at low quality with bad banding.My problem is that using the latest Canon drivers I am unable to set the printer driver properties - printing quality etc.
Does anyone out there know how to do this.
I'm not sure just what you're asking, but you set ink, paper, quality, etc. in the OS X system dialog box that opens up after you click in the PSE print dialog box. There's a pulldown menu in the middle of the page. If you just have the little stubby window, click the arrow to the right of the printer's name to expand the dialog box so you can see the menu. -
Could these (MacBook Pro) keyboard/trackpad problems be Leopard related?
My (MacBook Pro's) keyboard and trackpad stop working every couple of minutes. And then suddenly comes back. The capslock key and it's LED is also not responding anymore when it happens.
Could this be a software thing? I'm about to send this MacBook Pro back and get a replacement, but that would be kind of pointless if this is a software problem caused by Leopard.
Anyone in the same situation?
S.I have a MacBook Pro running 10.4.11, and mine started out having the exact same problems:
First, the keyboard took 2-3 minutes to be recognized after waking from sleep. Then, a few days later, the keyboard and trackpad would quit unexpectedly during use, took a few minutes to start working again. Then it went off a cliff from there. For the past 5 days, my keyboard and trackpad are not working whatsoever, I've tried all of the suggestions I can find online, nothing works. From the moment I startup, to the moment I shut down (thankfully I have a wireless Mighty Mouse) neither of them are recognized. I've had it on for 8 hours straight and it still didn't recognize the keyboard or trackpad. They don't show up in the system profiler under the USB section, and on top of that the on screen keyboard only types in lowercase, nothing happens when I hit the shift or Caps Lock key on the on screen keyboard.
I called Apple 4 days ago, they said that this is a priority issue and hope to have a fix out within a couple of weeks...yes...a couple of weeks, they said that they had the fix, and were just waiting on patents to go through (you have to be kidding me right?). Their temporary "fix" is to buy an external keyboard and mouse.
This is not by any means a Leopard only issue, and you can trace posts about this online all the way back to October 1, 2007, well before Leopard was released to the public.
The crazy thing is, if you look at this and don't assume it was caused by Apple, this bug behaves exactly like a virus, and a very well written one at that.
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2011 Macbook Pro External Monitor Problems
Hi all,
Looking through some of the threads, it appears that getting macbook pros to work with an external monitors is a big issue.
I've just bought a phillips 27" monitor and I'm having no luck whatsoever getting my MBP to see it. I've tried both HDMI and DVI using Apple's own mini adapters, but no matter I do, the monitor fails to detect any kind of signal and goes into sleep mode.
I occassionally get the blue screen flicker on my MBP as though it's trying to connect, but the monitor does nothing!!
I've tried most of the suggestions in other threads, which relate to earlier OSX versions, but nothing has helped.
I'm running 10.8.4 on a 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7.
If I fire up my Apple TV, I can use mirroring and the monitor displays my desktop no problem, but the picture quality is poor. So I guess the monitor works. I want to use a bigger screen as I use Logic Pro, so clarity is pretty essential when it comes to picture quality.
Any help would be most appreciated.
Best Regards
PhilHello Phil,
The following article provides a number of troubleshooting steps that I'd recommend looking into, especially testing with another display if possible, and resetting the MacBook Pro's parameter RAM and SMC.
Apple computers: Troubleshooting issues with video on internal or external displays
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1573
Cheers,
Allen -
MacBook Pro iSight not working after 10.6.5
After upgrading to 10.6.5 the iSight on my older MBP Core Duo no longer works. It shows up as detected in the System Profiler, but when I try to access the camera through Skype, iChat, FaceTime, and PhotoBook all I get is a black screen and the green light doesn't come on.
Skype says "camera in use by another application" even though nothing else is accessing the camera.
PhotoBooth returns a black screen.
FaceTime doesn't load properly, only returns a black rectangle of a window.
I tried uninstalling the Google video/voice plugin but that didn't do anything. I repaired permissions several times, that didn't help either. Any thoughts?jmcopeland wrote:
After upgrading to 10.6.5 the iSight on my older MBP Core Duo no longer works. It shows up as detected in the System Profiler, but when I try to access the camera through Skype, iChat, FaceTime, and PhotoBook all I get is a black screen and the green light doesn't come on.
Skype says "camera in use by another application" even though nothing else is accessing the camera.
PhotoBooth returns a black screen.
FaceTime doesn't load properly, only returns a black rectangle of a window.
I tried uninstalling the Google video/voice plugin but that didn't do anything. I repaired permissions several times, that didn't help either. Any thoughts?
As a follow up, I rebooted and reset the PRAM, checked the camera on another user account, and still have the same problem.
Two ideas, jmcopeland
(1) try all relevant suggestions from http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2090
If your iSight problem still occurs in more than one app and more than one user account, the PMU (SMC) reset suggested there often restores proper function of inbuilt iSight.
(2) If the problem still exists, aapply the Combo Update. If you don't already have a trusted Combo update method, use this one:
• Backup you Mac
• Disconnect all peripherals
• Restart your Mac
• Use Disk Utility to repair permissions
• Download and install http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1324
• Repair permissions again as soon as the update is complete
• Test iSight again per http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2090
Mac Pro Quad Core (Early 2009) 2.93Ghz Mac OS X (10.6.5); MacBook Pro (13 inch, Mid 2009) 2.26GHz (10.6.5);
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