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winrid 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: MacBook Air with M5

How do you know there's no PWM flicker? Even my M3 Pro with its supposed 10khz backlight burns my eyes, I had to get rid of it. Is this display not oled?

std_move 4 months ago [–]

MacBook Air has an IPS display with no flickering, see https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-MacBook-Air-15-M4-review...

Recent Pros have miniLED with high freq PWM.

manaskarekar 4 months ago | | [–]

There’s still temporal dithering.

It can be disabled but it doesn’t seem to help.

https://github.com/aiaf/Stillcolor

winrid 4 months ago | | [–]

Oh damn, that's awesome!

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