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2008-03-05, 03:09

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Originally Posted by CitizenTony View Post
Anyway, I think my display is fubar. When displaying whites and other brighter colors, you can see a grainy pattern. Most apparent when I pull down a menu. I think the term is dithering and reminds me of the really old days when you'd look at a picture that had too many colors for your monitor. If I set the background to a solid white, the shadows from the menu bar and windows aren't smooth at all. They band and then just end abruptly.
Try it on a store model. I think what you're seeing is just that, dithering. As is quite common for laptops, the MacBook display is likely only 18-bit interpolated to 24-bit.
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