Probably not on my lowest priced basic white 13" mid-2007 MacBook (the hard drive of which crashed last week). I don't use it for any image adjustments, but do (did) keep it calibrated.
I have an appointment with the geniae at Apple to see if they will honor their case by case replacement of almost all hard drives in said MacBooks. The cut-off was last year in the fall. But rumor has it they will still replace it for free. Now the bad news. Having been a bench tech for Apple 16 years ago, and seeing as how Apple has the instructions on changing a drive out on their support site, I went ahead a purchased a new 500 GB 7200 rpm Western Digital drive. Unfortunately, when I slid it into it's bay, some sort of shielding at the far end of the tunnel had sagged down after I removed the old drive. Trying to install the new drive resulted in said shielding bunching up, preventing the drive from seating. The fix for that will be taking the entire machine apart, repairing or replacing the shielding (and possibly a red wire that looks like it got squished in the process) and re-assembling the unit. I could do this myself, perhaps, but I'd like to give Apple a chance to be nice to me. Again. :-) On Feb 7, 2011, at 08:54 , steve harley wrote: > On 2011-02-07 03:21 , Joseph McAllister wrote: >> Does not work all that well on Laptops, but they tend to be less bright >> anyway. > > on Mac a laptop, be aware of the setting in the Displays preference pane > "Automatically adjust brightness as ambient light changes" -- i usually leave > that option turned on, but i would turn it of if i were using my laptop > screen for color work (only laptops with ambient light sensors will have this > option) Joseph McAllister Pentaxian http://gallery.me.com/jomac -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
