MAS-76
I believe so. I don’t believe those devices go up to 4 TB. I think only the Mac Mini or Mac Studios would fit that bill.
I still don’t quite understand what the terminal command that reveals “raw panel serial number” is actually telling us. I recall tons of people on Reddit sharing their MacBook Air serial numbers and for one person the FP1 panel was good and for the other it was bad. Same goes for the GMG panels on the Airs.
Any attempt at decoding these serials either using AI or a variety of searches across platforms from Google, eBay, and even parts of the Chinese web have failed except for the iMacs and older MacBook Pros (pre-2017 Touchbar MacBooks). You can find the specific panel for the Apple Silicon 24” iMacs, for example (it’s an LG 8-bit+FRC panel).
The one thing that has frankly exhausted me is that there is not enough objective testing from folks on this forum and elsewhere. So many seem to haunt this forum and others looking for a usable device and when they do, we rarely hear from them ever again. Instead we are left with the equivalent of guessing and hunches, which is fine and understandable, but does nothing to help us as a community understand why those devices worked and what specific symptoms are being caused by what technology.
This isn’t some mysterious black box in my opinion. It’s software and hardware triggering flicker that affects the eyes, brain, and nervous system in susceptible people. This can be PWM, FRC, spatial and temporal dither, pixel shifting and general pixel behavior, and so on. Then you have light sensitivity which is easier to tackle with calibration and certain gamma curves. All this can be identified because it was designed a certain way.
I’m relatively new here, but where are the master posts? Where are the testing guides? Are new users expected to read through almost 1,500 worth of posts in this thread alone in order to understand what has been learned? I’m not complaining because it’s a lot of work (which it is) but because great information and progress is lost by not collating this data in a summarized, frequently updated thread. The disorganization also hurts our ability to advocate as a community. This is not just an LEDstrain problem but an issue with all the flicker sensitive communities online. It’s too scattered.
Can we do something about this collectively? Those of you with 13” Touchbar Pros that work and M4 14”/16” QD display Pros - can you do some actual testing with a cheap $20 Carson microscope and help the rest of us try to identify whether your screens are using FRC or whether the pixel arrangement is different? Can we all share capture card outputs and categorize them by model, spec confirmation, and panel serial number?
I don’t believe this problem is unsolvable but there has to be more technical scientific testing done here lest we continue guessing for another year.