I love my Apple iMac 24″. I really do, but let’s face it… the 20″ was good enough for me, too bad i had to return it… the LCD panel was just trash… and in trash i mean the worst monitor i’ve seen in an Apple product (not counting the old Peforma monitors)…

The 24″ LCD panel is top notch, too bad Apple put a glass in front of it… i mean, it’s practically a mirror that does some computing ; )
The reflections are something i’ve never seen in any monitor before, not even on CRTs… i had to close the window doors to get away from the reflections during the morning… and trust me, i have a great view from my office window!

Then i tried calibrating the thing and my Pantone Huey gone mad with it… the only way was to do it with the office totally dark!
Moving on, after some time and some hard work, my eyes started to suffer, why? Find all about it on Google! People are complaning about burning eyes because of too much light comming from this thing!!! Even turning brightness all the way down doen’t solve it!

The solution, cut down on the gamma!

I’ve found some posts in Apple Forums regarding a software called Shades, but also read that it also burns too much CPU, and it’s basically an overlay on top of you monitor image.
I’ve found a much better solution, it’s called DarkAdapted X and it’s free! It doesn’t tax you CPU that much and works through gamma values. Although i’m still looking for a way to create a special color profile for this problem (just take down the gamma 25% down of a Huey calibrated color profile).

Regarding the glass, still hopping Apple gives us a replacement for the the mirror glass, maybe just a black frame, please Apple!

Check the full review at Wired blog…