17" LCD Studio Display questions

hazmat

hazmat

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I just got my 17" LCD Studio Display and have some questions. I think I have calibrated it as well as possible, but find that some text seems to be weird. Text in documents and web pages and such seems to be fine; quite sharp in fact, but in menus and such some letters seem to get cut off. Check out http://e-this.net:8080/stuff/lcd1.jpg . Notice the ends of the h's? And some thin letters, like l's have a red tinge to them. Any ideas or hints, or is this how they are?

Also, I know that you can't turn them off independently of the computer, so I have it set in Energy prefs to put the display to sleep after 15 minutes. It does in fact go black, but the power light stays on. Is this normal? I thought it was supposed to pulse.

I would have just looked in a manual for that, but there was none. Are they supposed to come with one?

Thanks.
 
this is a guess, but maybe the weird colors are because you're using sub-pixel anti-aliasing of fonts? see http://arstechnica.com/reviews/02q3/macosx-10.2/macosx-10.2-6.html#new-features about 1/4 way down the page.

I think if you select the bottom three options in SysPrefs/General, OS X uses sub-pixel AA-ing, but if you go for the CRT option it doesn't (because CRT's don't have sub-pixel components like LCDs do).

As to the power button throbbing thing, yes, it is normal for it to stay on. Only when the computer goes completely to sleep does it throb. Screen-only sleep leaves the power light on all the time. (I'm sitting in a lab of 15 17 inch Studio Diplays :eek: ;))
 
Thanks for the reply. Funny thing is that I tried playing with the font smoothing, and each setting looked the same. Was I missing something or do you have to do something like log out and back in to make it take effect?
 
I have an Apple Studio Display 17" and without any calibration I see text very well, 'H's are complete, not as on your picture.
 
3mors: what font smoothing setting are you running? It seems that I have no problems when it's set to Standard. Anything above and I get weirdness with them.
 
I think font smoothing is a joke. If you're that worried about the way text shows up on you screen I'm worried for you. I mean it makes it hard to read in very small text (miniml ). And I just don't see the point I geuss. Maybe cause I got used to fuzzy text cause my entire life I was trying to read with 20/50 vision in both my eyes, but to me it doesn't make sense.


Just my opinion... sorry if I'm a little ignorant on the subject.
 
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