Lawsuit over Apple MacBooks video capabilities

Submitted by charlie.collins on Tue, 05/22/2007 - 11:54

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Interesting, apparently the MacBook (and Pro?), cannot display the "millions of colors" advertised (without dithering), and are not superior to other machines as Apple has claimed. In fact the displays can apparently only handle 6 bits per channel, which comes to 262,144 colors. I am not mathematician, but that is less than millions. As a result, two guys from Cali are suing Apple, and the attorneys may be seeking class action status. Along with the hardware, and advertising issues, apparently the software is also a problem. The suit claims that running Windows XP on the MacBook yields *superior results* as compared to running OS X itself. Now I did not buy a MacBook for the video display performance, nor for the output (the standard MacBook has an "integrated" Intel video chipset), and the motives of this lawsuit seem a bit suspicious, but I will admit that Apple really should not be claiming "16 Million Colors" for this thing - the display is not very good. SiliconRepublic has more detail.

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Apple is not claiming "16.7

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 05/22/2007 - 22:28.

Apple is not claiming "16.7 millions colors," but "millions of colors." It may not be acceptable either if a notebook LCD can only display 262,144 colors natively and millions with dithering.

Curious, who said they were

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 05/22/2007 - 22:50.

Curious, who said they were claiming 16.7 million colors, since you are refuting that? The lawsuit, per the article, does say they claimed "in advertising" the machines are "capable of displaying as many as 16 million colors." The article here says "millions", either way <300k is nowhere near it.