Would be interesting to record some similar stuff in win and mac here if you do to try to deconstruct exactly what is different. It's time consuming as always tho.

  • Refresh rate / VRR
  • Different monitor timings / blanking
  • Different default gamma?
  • Copy color profile and timings from Windows to Mac?
  • Effect of turning off retina and scaling on both and running them at native resolution?
  • Recording of scrolling text https://www.testufo.com/framerates-text
  • How much does the same browser differ? Is the issue everything else on the OS?

    async Copy color profile and timings from Windows to Mac?

    Windows 10 on 2018 Air is using no color profile at all at least to my knowledge, I even disabled the "Calibration Loader" service to prevent Windows from doing that thing where it "slightly changes colors right after typing in your password" on a fresh boot.

    That's something that can't really be reproduced on macOS (since there's no way to truly use "no color profile" on macOS, the closest you can get is a "NULL ICC Profile" but that doesn't actually disable color management)

    I'll check timings the next time I reinstall Windows on the 2018 Air. That will not be for a while, though, because I'm busy at the moment and I have other usable devices — so I currently don't have a reason to use my 2018 Air.

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