Thread: Anyone else got a Mac?

I don't know that you can buy an LCD monitor now that isn't 32bit colour anymore.

I've also just purchased another monitor that is 19" ViewSonic at 1440 x 900 pixels for $320 that is quite good but not as good as my laptop. It has 32 bit colour.

As a software developer, it's handy having lots of screen real estate. The two monitors help.

I pretend to be a photographer and quality colour monitor is important to me.

I think the crucial point here Grunt is that a computer (most likely mac as well don't know) has 8 bit look up table meaning 8 bit colour output. To get around this the high end manufacturers decided to put their own look up table in the monitor. My old monitor was 10 bit but got stolen and so I got a replacement with 12 bit LUT.

They might be saying their monitor is capable of displaying 32 bit colour but of course it counts for nothing if the monitor only gets 8 bit information.

Studley

Originally Posted by Studley 2436

They might be saying their monitor is capable of displaying 32 bit colour but of course it counts for nothing if the monitor only gets 8 bit information.

Which I think is why Apple is being sued for saying their monitors display millions of colours!

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