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  • My possible solution for the eyestrain on M1pro 16 MacBook pro

Which m1 MBP did you have all the issues with? The 13 inch?

Have you tried:

  • Changing "ProMotion" to 60hz
  • Changing "1500 HDR" to "P3-500" / SDR?

Yeah, I tried both options. For me, changing to 60hz is more like a placebo effect, and the second option literally doesn't help. PAL & SECAM Video profile turns out to be the only one that works for me especially when we have some light sources shine on the screen, although it stills causes eye fatigue, it's much better than any other options.

    Henry1987
    Tried to change my sRGB preset to PAL and noticed better text clarity, cause it makes everything a bit contrasty and darker.

    Feels like it's better for me to use PAL preset, however I use it with combination of Betterdisplay (dummy trick) to stop temporal dithering and custom White Point that helps to make display a bit greenish.

    Here are my settings. I make different presets for every luminance setting.

    And Generic RGB profile for Dummy

      This profile is not available on Macbook Air M2. Is there a way to set this or equivalent on the Air?

      Henry1987 I tried on my working mbp m1 2021 (which i'm not using and its just sitting on a shelf). So before that, laptop for me was like 2-2.5/10, and after new color profile I can say its like 4-5/10. After a while I still feel slight nausea but at least I can work with a laptop for few hours straight. Also noticed a slight lymph nodes of the neck became more tense.

      @Sentiny this really made it a lot easier to look at the screen. However with the custom profiles, you loose the ability to increase/decrease the brightness. It works on a fixed brightness. Or am I missing something?

        sensiz only fixed brightness. As I said, I make different presets for every brightness level and just change em if I need to decrease or increase brightness.

        All you need is to change maximum luminance setting in a range 50-500 and save various presets, for brightness 50,100,150…300,400,500, this will help to change brightness when needed.

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        Sentiny I facing the same problem. I thought something is wrong but could say what.

        Could work fir hours on my last laoptop (windows) and got mbp16 and started feeling the problems mentioned.

        Can someone help me?

        Betterdiplay pro is a paid app. Can someone please share it with me. It would a life saver if one could help me with situation. Spent so much of my savings, just to find out this problem of dithering and ewm. 😔

          This You don't need to buy Betterdisplay to use dummy.

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            Sentiny how do you setter dummy display?

            I want text to be large but it gets blurred

            Can betterdisplay fix it?

            Is there a tutorial?

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