{"id":1460,"date":"2007-05-18T16:25:03","date_gmt":"2007-05-18T20:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/18\/apples-6-bit-displays\/"},"modified":"2007-05-18T16:28:10","modified_gmt":"2007-05-18T20:28:10","slug":"apples-6-bit-displays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/18\/apples-6-bit-displays\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple&rsquo;s 6-bit Displays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/waffle.wootest.net\/2007\/05\/18\/hither-and-dither\/\">Jesper<\/a>:\r\n<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/waffle.wootest.net\/2007\/05\/18\/hither-and-dither\/\">\r\n<p>\r\nApple&rsquo;s using displays that are literally dithering some colors for you.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\nFrom early day one&mdash;literally seconds after the setup assistant had turned over control to the regular Mac OS X, I noticed that the gradient in the menu bar was&hellip;notchy. One color did not turn into the other like on any other display. There was banding. Gradients of all sorts looked weird, and I was able to bring up colors in the color panel&mdash;light grey colors are perfect for showing it off&mdash;that in fact looked like a chess field with two alternating colors.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\nI noticed the graininess of my MacBook Pro&rsquo;s screen the first time I turned it on. I thought it might be defective but confirmed that other MacBooks and MBPs also looked that way, so I figured that was just the way newer notebook displays were. Even with the graininess, I much prefer it to the PowerBook&rsquo;s display, due to the increased brightness. But I agree that Apple shouldn&rsquo;t get away with this.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/waffle.wootest.net\/2007\/05\/18\/hither-and-dither\/\">\r\n<p>\r\nIt&#8217;s normal for batteries to expire if you suck at maintaining them\u2014on the other hand, Apple were <em>advertising<\/em> that the screens can display millions of colors, and they can&#8217;t.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesper: Apple&rsquo;s using displays that are literally dithering some colors for you. From early day one&mdash;literally seconds after the setup assistant had turned over control to the regular Mac OS X, I noticed that the gradient in the menu bar was&hellip;notchy. One color did not turn into the other like on any other display. There [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}