Disappointment with new Mac Book Pro's LED backlit display

[Kaku Ito]

I finally had time to play around with the Core i7 Mac Book Pro tonight. I applied the Eyeone Display 2's monitor calibration and noticed that the dark area looked little lifted. I thought since LCD display don't have the contrast control, maybe the calibration didn't fine adjust that but what I found out was little disappointing. I played around with the angle of the display, then I noticed that the contrast changes. The long story short, the LCD display has narrow viewing angle vertically. Worse than the horizontal viewing angle range. I have to make sure to look at it from straight when I make color adjustment.

 

[Jay Gannon]

Be careful that your not encountering the auto brightness, put your finger over the isight on the lid and see does the brightness change.

 

[Jordan Livingston]

When you do situate yourself at the "sweet spot" viewing angle, the colors are surprisingly accurate! In most cases, the auto-brightness is way too bright, but since you're (very wisely) doing a calibration, you should be able to get great results within the sweet spot.

- JL

 

[Kaku Ito]

Naturally, the auto brightness is off.

True, I like how it looks calibrated at the sweet spot, but the sweet spot being narrow is the problem. I calibrate all of my monitors and displays with Klein K10/Calman and Eyeone Display 2. Comparing to K10/Calman which costs $7k, I'm surprised that Eyeone Display 2 could get close to K10/Calman result. So, I'm used to calibrated environment and among all the other displays that I go through, still disappointed with the narrow sweet spot on Mac Book Pro. One of my four year old Eizo has better vertical viewing angle.