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It's interesting how different people react in distinct ways to the same stimuli. I always found the current televisions on sale nowadays a lot less aggressive on the eyes comparing to our desktop / laptop monitors. I seldom see TV (or use a TV display) but I can actually tolerate them quite well, in stark contrast with what happens with LED displays.

Sometimes I go to my grandmother's house and she still has one of those old cubic televisions. I really hate that television (and the flickering is awful..). I often wonder if the TV has been like that since its early days, or if it's actually getting worse over time..

I've been thinking in that. On the other hand, I have both an iPhone 4s and iPod3 and the iPhone is way more aggressive on my eyes than the iPad. It doesn't make any sense at all!

As you stated, I believe I have several issues playing simultaneously, and that's one of the reasons it's particularly hard to pinpoint the root causes of my pain.

I use an iPhone 4s and I hate it It gives me instant eye strain + headaches.
Its original OS (I don't remember which one it was) seemed a lot better than the new updated ones. I wish I could revert it back to how it was.. but oh well.

I bought a year ago a new laptop (LED) and it's just plain terrible for my eyes. My old CCFL laptop was so much better, but unfortunately it just died so I couldn't use it anymore.

I was wondering if there's some place where I can buy new laptops with CCFL screens? I work as a software developer so I don't need it to have perfect graphics or even a good graphic card, but I would probably not want to trade that much in terms of ram & processor speed (this pretty much means I need new models and not 10 years ago models).

I'm currently located in the Switzerland area although I'd be interested to know of what's available on the market, even if it's far away.

Oh, sorry for not giving you a more detailed explanation of my hardware specs from the beginning.

I'm running a 2014 model of a (Laptop) Toshiba Satellite P50. It has an Intel graphics card.

Hello

I've seen in the apple forums a refernece to a windows tool that would allow one to change its Intel dithering settings. I've tried it out but it didn't seem to make a difference.

Does this mean that I can cross the dithering thing from my check list of possible causes for my migraines / sensitivity when looking at a computer screen, or trying out a laptop / desktop with a NVIDIA graphics card would still make sense?

Thanks

Location: Lisbon / Zurich
Occupation: Software Developer
Age: 28

When I bought a couple of years ago an iPad3 I noticed that I'd get instant nausea and eye strain + headaches when looking at it. And then the same happened when I bought an iPhone 4s. It then still took me a while to figure out that this was not something particular to those devices -- since I can remember I'd put the screen brightness as low as possible. I always had nausea / headaches problems but I erroneously had attributed them to other causes, and only at that moment everything became clear. It is also now clear to me that my problem is not specific to computers. I also seem to hate white light and fluorescent / LED lights. But I also have issues with natural (sun, candle, etc) light. Playing "fast" games such as Quake or Unreal Tournament always gave me headaches, as my eyes would get fuzzy and confused over fast movements. I hate with passion those new movies with high FPS. They make me dizzy.

I've tried using BenQ monitors (flicker free, low blue light) but they don't seem of great help. I get instant eye strain and migraines looking at them. I hate glossy displays. For some reason TVs don't seem to bother me as much as PC monitors (I'd assume that's because TVs are far away from you while PC screens are not)

I was diagnosed with a very mild astigmatism. I've tried using glasses for a month but they actually only made matters worse.

Keeping a regular eating schedule does seem to ameliorate my migraine problems.

I don't know very well what to do atm, as new devices are being built with LED which is absolutely terrible. I miss my old laptop with CCFL, it was really easier on the eyes when set at low brightness. This is highly problematic in my field as offices are full of fluorescent / LED lighting + multiple LED screens. It's dreadful.