My 20 inch iMac G5 will be 3 years old in 2 months. The LCD picture is
very sharp (1680 x 1050, millions of colors), and I've kept the
brightness as far down as it will go, ever since I purchased it. Just
to experiment, I turned the brightness all of the way up, and it hurt
my eyes. Some very small characters are composed of line widths that
are only 1 pixel wide (as seen with a magnifying glass). The
characters are tiny, but very sharp and readable without the
magnifying glass.
Alvin
On Apr 30, 2008, at 11:26 PM, Paula Minor wrote:
I bought a new Dell LCD monitor so I could have a dual setup. Now,
with both of them side-by-side, I realize that my eyes weren't going
bad fast....the older LCD monitor(also a Dell) is very dim and the
letters are a bit soft or blurry. I do calibrate my monitors and
had been having problems getting it to calibrate well. I thought my
eyes were going!
This monitor is about 3 1/2 yrs old. Is it normal for lcd's to go
bad this quickly? I have t he brightness turned all the way up now
and it's still pretty dim, especially compared to the new one.And
even with calibrating, the colors are very different between the
two. I had planned on keeping my email on the older monitor and
Word too. But I can hardly bear to read anything on it now. My
eyes won't stay focused and I have to squint to bring the words into
focus. If I put it on the new monitor, no problem reading at all.
Just wanting to know if this is normal or has it gone bad faster
than it should have?
I"m not sure I can continue to use it even for things like the tool
bars of Photoshop, calendar, iTunes etc because it really bothers my
eyes.
Thanks!
Paula
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