iMac display resolutions

Howard Brazee <howard RemoveThis @brazee.net> wrote:

> I have read something that some of the iMacs have screens that don't
> show true color. I saw it didn't apply to the 24" and didn't pay
> much attention after that.

What you probably read was that the displays in Apple (and other)
laptops could not display millions of colors at their advertsied
resolutions. This didn't apply to desktop LCDs.
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Howard Brazee wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 06:28:31 -0700, Wesley Konrad
> <wesleykonrad RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> For some reason, the choices of dispay resolutions has become quite
>> limited on my 17" intel iMac. Has anyone ever experienced this before?
>
> I have read something that some of the iMacs have screens that don't
> show true color. I saw it didn't apply to the 24" and didn't pay
> much attention after that.

I think you will find that that applies to most LCD displays, they are
limited to a lower range of colours than CRT monitors, that is because
they only have 6 bits per colour rather than the full 8 bits, however
they get round this by dithering to simulate the full range of colours.
That is why most high end graphics work is still done using CRT monitors.
It may well be the case that the top of the range displays are now true
8 bit, also the colour gamut is supposed to be better with LED
backlights as opposed to VF backlights.
Ben.
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On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:17:54 -0600, massello DeleteThis @newsguy.com (Neill
Massello) wrote:

>What you probably read was that the displays in Apple (and other)
>laptops could not display millions of colors at their advertsied
>resolutions. This didn't apply to desktop LCDs.

It did say "iMac" and it did specify that the 24" iMac didn't have
this limitation. It may have been the 20", I don't remember.
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On 2007-09-20 09:56:11 -0500, Howard Brazee <howard.TakeThisOut@brazee.net> said:

> On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 06:28:31 -0700, Wesley Konrad
> <wesleykonrad.TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> For some reason, the choices of dispay resolutions has become quite
>> limited on my 17" intel iMac. Has anyone ever experienced this before?
>
> I have read something that some of the iMacs have screens that don't
> show true color. I saw it didn't apply to the 24" and didn't pay
> much attention after that.

Note that this has nothing to do with the OP's question about the
available resolutions listed in the System Preferences > Displays panel.

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