Over the weekend I heard about the class - action suit being filed against Apple by two MacBook users who complain that their Apple laptop were incorrectly advertised as supporting “ millions of coloring , ” when in fact they only exhibit approximately 262,000 colors .

Color is not my best topic . I ’m slimly red - greenish colorblind , which in my event have in mind that I have trouble differentiating between certain pernicious gradations in green , and have difficulty key very wispy pinks — they bet whitened or gray .

Moreover , I really enjoy my MacBook ’s exhibit . I ’ve find that the showy display cease up put up much deeper blacks than the non - reflective display on my old laptop , and the MacBook ’s powerful backlighting means that I can once again work on my laptop computer in verbatim sunlight , which I never really could handle with my PowerBook .

But when I heard about this issue , the first thing I did was check the stats on my own MacBook . And what I notice was that my laptop computer uses an LG ElectronicsLP133WX1 - TLA1 display . harmonize to the LG Philips LCD web web site , that presentation is a 6 - turn exhibit able of displaying 262,144 colouring material .

In my year - plus of using a MacBook , I ’ve never noticed any problem with the colors it has display . For all I sleep together , my color - blind middle are n’t evencapableof detecting more than 262,144 coloration , at least not in a meaningful way .

But here ’s the thing : Apple’stech specification page for the MacBooksays , very clearly , that my laptop computer ’s presentation is “ a 13.3 - inch ( slanting ) shiny widescreen TFT display with support for millions of color . ” And my Display control instrument panel claims that I can pick out a color range of “ 256 Colors , ” “ 1000 , ” or “ Millions . ”

I may not be able to tell a grim sweater from a green perspirer ( reliable taradiddle ! ) , or appreciate the beauty of the insidious pinkish blossoms on a cherry tree . But I do know this : 262,144 is substantially less than “ millions . ”

According toone clause I regain , this is standard industriousness praxis — that 6 - bit displays are often referred to as supporting 16.2 or 16 million colour , even though the display ca n’t actually display those extra colors without dither . ( dither is a summons by which dots of closely - associate colors are placed next to each other in a pattern that the human eye merges together , throw the coming into court of a unlike color . )

But being an standard industry practice does n’t mean it ’s ripe . Of course the manufacturers of 6 - snatch displays would require to take that their ware could display 16 million colors instead of 262,000 . I ’d wish to take that buy a transcript of Macworld ’s Apple TV Superguide will bring around urarthritis , too — but it wo n’t . ( Sorry , Macworld referee who hurt fromgout . )

A lot of Apple ’s customers are ( unlike me ) extremely gloss - sensitive intention and graphics professionals . Even if it turns out that the video display industry ’s standard practiceislegitimate , Apple owes it to those customer to more completely let out what they ’re getting when they buy an Apple electronic computer or display .

Let ’s go for that this situation makes Apple see the lighting — all 16 million unmatched color of it .