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MacBook "millions of colours" suit settled

by Stephen Withers
Thursday, 27 March 2008
! A 'stealth' out-of-court settlement that ended a lawsuit against Apple has slipped under the radar for several months. Related stories HTC Touch Diamond has Windows glass jaw iPhone carrier exclusivity officially gone iPhone Vodafone announcement has broken Apple's exclusive carrier model Next iPhone may be locked after all Apple tops for tech support The case was brought in mid-2007 by a pair of photographers who said they were misled by Apple's claim that the MacBook and MacBook Pro were capable of showing millions of colours when the display panel only uses 18 bits of information per pixel, limiting the display to hundreds of thousands of colours. Such panels are commonly used in notebooks and cheaper desktop displays. Dithering is used to provide the illusion of the remaining shades, and the plaintiffs claimed this was not sufficiently accurate for photo editing. The terms of the settlement are unknown, according to the Chicago Tribune, which brought the outcome to light. The reason given for accepting the settlement - which occurred last year - was the difficulty of establishing that there really was a class of people that had relied on Apple's "millions of colours" description when choosing a MacBook or MacBook Pro. Tags See All Tags Apple Hardware Litigation Macintosh Stephen Withers United States Video Get stories like this delivered daily - FREE - subscribe now When you subscribe get a 12 months license for LiveProject Valued at $99 USD Comments (0) Subscribe to this comment's feed Tell us what you think! better to paste your comment - this page will refresh every 15 minutes Name If the comments system keeps asking you to enter your name, tells you the message is too short, or a similar error, try removing any double quotation marks and replacing them with single quotation marks and possibly also removing any punctuation that is unnecessary, that should fix the problem - it does for us. - NEW comments system coming soon - Your Comment - smaller \| bigger Subscribe via email (Registered users only) Powered by Azrul's Jom Comment for Joomla!

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