New 20" iMac Screens Show 98% Fewer Colors

Trintech points us to an AppleInsider article about another class-action lawsuit directed against Apple Inc. This one claims that the displays on new 20" iMacs are only capable of 6-bit-per-pixel color, 98% fewer colors than Apple advertises. Rather than the 8-bit, in-plane switching (IPS) screens used in 24" iMacs and earlier 20" models, "[t]he new 20-inch iMac features a 6-bit twisted nematic film (TN) LCD screen," according to the article, "which the [law] firm claims is the 'least expensive of its type,' sporting a narrower viewing angle than the display of the 24-inch model, less color depth, less color accuracy, and greater susceptibility to washout." Apple recently settled a very similar class-action suit about the displays on MacBook and MacBook Pro models.

Uh oh

[sltd]

Mac Fanboys converging in 3... 2... 1...

Re:No April Fools articles this year.

[shaitand]

OMG PONIES!!

If anything...

[MrNemesis]

...the new OSX interface has shown us that we don't need so many colours. Colours in a computer eat up the memory bits and distract us from our reverence. Personally, I'm going to take Steve's advice and go get my eyes chromed.

Re:Uh oh

[geekoid]

only after the through on their black wrinkled Tee Shirts, and un-comb(de comb?) their hair.

Hmmm

[El Lobo]

Bad advertising? Who cares that an underpowered overpriced computer is not living up to the expectations. Who cares? Itä's Abble. Look, man, SHINY!!!!

I know what they're doing

[jollyreaper]

Apple is just trying to bring back the glory days of black and white screens.

That's OK

[Lxy]

640 colors ought to be enough for anyone.

Quick Ban-Him

[Russell2566]

Quick, ban this guy for posting something that might be construed as anti-apple... We all know they can't do wrong. Someone change Apple -> Microsoft and all will be well...

Re:No April Fools articles this year.

[pwnies]

You called?

Apple monitors give o1000000 colors

[davidwr]

Apple uses octal.

Re:No April Fools articles this year.

[davidwr]

Maybe next year, they'll unveil "wiki.slashdot.org" due to overwhelming demand by careless users who want to be able to edit their posts and fix their spelling (and everyone else's posts too!)

Maybe next year, they'll unveil "wiki.slashdot.org" due to overwhelming demand by careless users who want to be able to edit their posts and fix their spelling (and everyone else's posts too!).

There, fixed that for you.

Great for the environment

[InvisblePinkUnicorn]

I'd call this 98% color reduction a healthy, green approach, great for the environment... except that green was one of the colors that was removed...

Re:If anything...

[sm62704]

You're absolutely right. I hate colours myself. I much prefer the American colors, thay're much brighter and prettier than the British colours. Damn that Jobs and his British colours! And he calls himself an American!

Re:6 Bit per pixel.

[randyest]

Wouldn't a videophobe prefer to have no display at all?

Re:No April Fools articles this year.

[gnick]

(2^18)/(2^24) = 0.016 2%

Umm... No. (2^18)/(2^24) = 1.5625%. You were somehow off by a factor of about 96.

Re:Uh oh

[Anonymous Coward]

And learn to spell "throw", not "through"?

A better one......

[edwardpickman]

would have been Vista Service Pack 2 will support 486 computers. Service Pack 3 will be backwardly compatible to 8086 machines.

It's truly April Fool's....

[afxgrin]

There's no army of Apple fan boys coming to their defense in this particular case. Come on, you can start posting defensive comments now, it's past noon.

Re:If anything...

[ThePromenader]

Technically, American 'color' contains less bytes than British 'colour'. So although American colors (especially in advertising) tend to be more towards the pure (rgb + complimentary), can we consider them to be the more 'simblastic' of the two?

Re:No April Fools articles this year.

[Jardine]

Maybe next year, they'll unveil "wiki.slashdot.org" due to overwhelming demand by careless users who want to be able to edit their posts and fix their spelling (and everyone else's posts too!).

There, fixed that for you. Citation needed.

Re:No April Fools articles this year.

[rsilvergun]

Everybody gets so fixated on response times and viewing angles, but none of that amounts to a hill of beans without color rendition and accuracy.

I'm a color blind programmer.

Yet Steve Jobs does not care about it

[Orion Blastar]

because he is colorblind. That is why the original Macintosh and Lisa were in black and white with shades of gray. It wasn't that it was cheaper, it was that Steve Jobs is colorblind. 6-bit or 8-bit color, it all looks the same to Steve Jobs.

On the other hand, Windows and PCs are the way they are because Bill Gates has asperger syndrome.

Linux is the way it is because Linus Torvalds worked his way through college as a nude model for art students to paint or draw pictures of the human body. That is why Linux is open, totally naked.