I dunno if this is really a software question, but oh well... Is there a big difference between millions and thousands of colors for the display? I don't really see any big differences or performance differances. Does anyone know which I should use for my iBook?
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Go to some site with pictures, prefereable hi-res. and set to thousands of colors. They look a bit spotty. Then just change the color depth to millions, and you'll see right away that it looks better.
If you just do word processing, mail, normal web browsing... then it doesnt really matter that much.
I have to say that in 10.1.x on my iBook 600 8MB vram putting to thousands of colors would make a difference in speed. Now in 10.2 Ive always had it at millions and there is basically no difference in speed.
Maybe it's because it's very slow on both, or maybe it's because it doesn't make much of a difference. Either way, I always find it works better in millions, in all situations. Almost everything looks better that way.
Andrew
<strong>I never could tell the difference between the two so that's why I use only thousands.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Surely you can tell the difference. Select a solid colored desktop background like "Solid Gray" and look at the dithering. Look at the drop shadows. the human eye can easily discren more than 65536 colors.
thnx
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Anyone else notice that?
<strong>I never could tell the difference between the two so that's why I use only thousands.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Are you completely colorblind?
Thousands looks horrible...even on LCD displays, and your iBook has one of the better ones.