My screen is much too bright.

Putting the slider to min. light, the display is still too bright
Is there a fix for that ?
One of my friends have one too, but his light settings is ok.
I have reinstalled the OSX from scratch, but it did not solve the problem.
Can it be that my G5 is a never release with a different display ?
Please help before my eyes burns out.

Yes, the new imacs (isight and intel--not sure which you've got) are too bright. You can help this a tad by going to system prefs>color>calibrate and setting your gamma up to 2.2, but not much. You can also download various utilities, like Gamma Control, to help a bit more, but the best solution is to use a hardware calibrator like the Huey, Spyder, EyeOne, etc.
EDIT Should mention I'm not sure that the software for these devices is intel-compatible, so if that's what you've got you should check with the manufacturer before buying a device.

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