It was as a joy to hear that M2 MBA display has no PWM at all brightness levels (refer notebookcheck review) it is excellent news for people who are sensitive to PWM. For them them the only option is to reduce white point and keeping brightness high. But there is another concern with M2 Macbook air, to achieve the 10bit MBA M2 uses (8bit + FRC aka temporal dithering) which generates flicker and is another major reason for eye strain. Is there any way we can fallback to 8bit and disable dithering by changing color profile or something to sRGB IEC 61966-2 or any other suggestions? I just need confirmation that switching to sRGB IEC61966-2.1 actually turns 8 + 2 frc aka dithering off. Turning the display to an 8bit one without temporal dithering.Do you know a reliable way for me to check and confirm that it actually disables dithering. I do not want placebo benefits

The only way I know if is getting a capture card and trying to analyze a diff between the frames of an image that should be static. Though knowing that providers like Amulet needed to turn it off, I'm wondering if there's lossless screen capture software that would do the same. Curious to see if the community knows anything else here.

I just bought a M2 MBA and can confirm the eye strain is still pretty significant. Any luck in disabling the dithering? I'll likely have to return it and once again go back to by trusted 2015 MBP, last laptop with no eye strain. There has to be a solution!

MAS-76 ARM Macs are an entirely different can of worms from older systems. so don't think I can help.

MAS-76 Worth installing Asahi Linux and see how it is as the driver for it currently has zero hardware acceleration.

JTL , I have a 2019 Intel MBP with AMD Radeon Pro 5500M / Intel UHD Graphics 630. Is there any way to disable dithering on that? I'd love to use that machine. It would be a life-saver.

MAS-76 Did you face similar issue for M1 Macbook Air as well. And also why changing to sRGB would not help? Wouldn’t that make the display 8bit without dithering atleast for Macbook Air M2

I had the same issue with the M1 MacBook Air. Changing to sRGB did not work. Nor did SwitchResX on the older 2019 Intel machine (setting to millions of colors). Nothing has worked so far for any machine post 2015

The latest review on notebookcheck confirms that there are no temporal dithering on M2 air

Just picked one of these up today, I'll definitely post again with impressions on eye strain. Really interesting that there's no sign of dithering or PWM, I wonder if Apple is noticing more users complaining about these problems.

the123blackjack bookcheck confirms that there are no temporal dithering on M2 air From this Notebookcheck link : So, we examined the IPS panel of the Air M2 with a microscope and created a slow-motion recording with 240 images per second. While we were able to detect temporal dithering, for example, in the current MacBook Pro 16 with the Mini-LED panel in some particular gray color tones, this was neither the case in the old MacBook Air M1 nor in the new MacBook Air M2 Looks like they couldn't detect dithering in M1 either? Found this thread on MacRumors .

Now that we have no PWM on MBA M2 what to do with FRC/Dithering?

Donux

Moe3224 Is it just text or something with GPU? You know you can quite easily make text on mac as sharp as on windows using few terminal commands. Also, have your tried switching between color profiles? Regarding ipad pro I am hearing that this one is eye strain free, even see a lot of public people use it too.

caoyirui

MAS-76 Is the 2015 15" MacBook Pro still good in 2023?

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