[Duo2400] Re: Choice between Duo 2300c and 2400c

[Larry Friedman]

Cool, I understand the color theory of it all due to the 
photo-retouching I do for a living. I'm just glad that Gamma will 
cancel it out.

Thanks
Larry


On Monday, December 16, 2002, at 09:12  PM, Marc Sira wrote:

>> I have seen a couple of these generation Powerbooks where the screen
>> quality was washed out and blue cast, nothing to write home about. I
>> wanted to know if the 2400 suffered from these problems as well.
>
> The 2400's screen has pretty good contrast, bright and not at all 
> washed
> out. At "thousands of colors" it has much better contrast than any of 
> the
> colour Duos (whose screens lose contrast and become visibly darker at 
> the
> higher depth).
>
> It is fairly bluish as LCD screens go. On mine I used the Adobe Gamma 
> control
> panel to lower the apparent white point to about 7500K (starting from 
> the
> PB2400c profile supplied with the OS) with good results - window 
> borders went
> back to being neutral grey instead of blue tinted. The definitions of 
> "blue"
> and "white" vary greatly depending on the observer and setting, though.
>
>> 2400c display: 10.4" 16-bit 800x600 color dual-scan or active matrix
>
> There aren't actually any dual-scan 2400 Powerbooks (or Duos - the 
> passive
> greyscale ones are single-scan). I think the 1400 came with the choices
> above, in a slightly larger screen (the dual-scan one was actually 
> pretty
> nice, though probably with reduced actual colour depth - less of those
> ambiguous "thousands" to play with ;).
>
> -- 
> Marc Sira		|	toh at victoria.tc.ca
> If you can't play with words, what good are they?
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