Ron Schenone

Apple's Turn In The Barrel: Being Sued For Alleged Faulty Display

Posted by on May 23, 2007 | 6 Comments

A couple of guys in California have filed a lawsuit in Superior Court stating that they and others are not happy campers about what they allege is misleading display calculations for their Apple MacBooks. But is Apple the only one who may be cheating?

Here is what the alleged complaint claims. The complainers say that in order for a display to produce ‘millions of colors’ you need to use, or should use, an 8 bit LCD. They conclude that Apple uses a 6 bit LCD and ‘dithering’ software to fool the eye into thinking it is millions and not thousands of colors, which could be the case.

This actually came about because some users complained that their displays appeared to them as being ‘grainy.’ Complaints to Apple were not addressed and the eagle-eyed users were not overly satisfied with Apple’s response, which in some cases included a refund offer. To me, that sounds extremely fair, but it appears it wasn’t satisfactory for some.

This is why the majority of the world uses PCs and not Macs. Macs are inferior products for which users overpay with no added benefit. Apple has sold these people a bill of goods who only find out afterwards they have purchased a cheap product with overall inferior parts. I wouldn’t even use an Apple product if it was given to me! I’M JUST JOKING, MACHEADS!

It is just nice to reverse the tables once in a while and bust your chops.:-) Us PC users expect a grainy display and we can’t tell the difference between ‘dithered’ or ‘withered’ and are just happy when our computers start up. LOL.

[tags]apple, macbook, lawsuit[/tags]

  • marc klink

    Interesting…I did not know that 6bit LCDs were ever offered. I’m sure that it will change quietly if found to be. Soon 8bit displays will, if necessary, magically appear in the production line.

    As for starting up…I know after building hundreds of PCs, that each time I put one together a little sigh of relief goes out when it starts the very first time. It usually does, but I’ll never forget one fried 486 motherboard that I had used a cheap PSU to save some money. It was very expensive after all.

  • http://wp3.lockergnome.com/nexus/blade/ Ron Schenone

    Hello Marc,
    I think we have all done that. Agree, there is a sigh of relief when the system first starts. :-)

    Side note – despaming our comments does work! Yahoo!!!! LOL

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ALZSLE5AM76LVQOYSNJTLXVSQQ DMC

    For me, the deciding factor was capacity more than camera or processor specs. I like to be able to carry music, movies, etc in addition to apps, so the capacity was the big factor. My parents are also looking at getting an iPhone, and for them, the 3GS is the better option because they won’t be using the storage like I would, nor will they have a lot of apps running on it.

  • Anonymous

    I went with the iPhone 4 because I got a 3GS for work and really the difference in the screen can make you go spent the extra bucks even the camera is makes it a great addition, I got it on Verizon an I know iPhone 5 is coming out but I could still sell this phone for 400$ when the new one comes out and I wouldn’t have to spent the much to get another and I would be enjoying the iPhone all this time , so that’s cool with me :) if you going for a 2 year agreement you should get the iPhone 4 you would still have support for iOS 5 most likely and the 3 gs probably got the last update now so no worth it, I know the price sounds tempting but in 12 months you going to think why didn’t you get the 4 instead

  • Anonymous

    I went with the iPhone 4 because I got a 3GS for work and really the difference in the screen can make you go spent the extra bucks even the camera is makes it a great addition, I got it on Verizon an I know iPhone 5 is coming out but I could still sell this phone for 400$ when the new one comes out and I wouldn’t have to spent the much to get another and I would be enjoying the iPhone all this time , so that’s cool with me :) if you going for a 2 year agreement you should get the iPhone 4 you would still have support for iOS 5 most likely and the 3 gs probably got the last update now so no worth it, I know the price sounds tempting but in 12 months you going to think why didn’t you get the 4 instead

  • http://twitter.com/scarboy6693 Sahil Arora

    Personally I’d say iPhone 4. One thing you forgot to mention was the display, the most important part of a phone. If you’re going to be reading text, nothing beats the retina display as far as clarity goes. Another thing is that the 3GS is probably going to be phased out in the coming months. The next iPhone is probably 2 months away, so I’d say just hang on to your BB until june. Odds are the iPhone 4 will drop down to $99 then too.