How good is your color? [via] Check out whether your MacBook has a 24-bit or 18-bit screen.
As far as I can tell, mine is 24-bit, and that confirms what I suspected: it’s very possible that Apple’s supplier(s) occasionally gave them inferior screens without them noticing, but I don’t think there was intentional deception from Apple’s part — sure, they might have received the screens and said “oh shoot, we’ll use them anyway” but that doesn’t really sound like Apple, does it? (Unless they were in a hurry to restock?).
In any case, the fact that OS X and/or the video card (more likely the latter, which would explain why the system doesn’t even realize it) automatically dithers on those 18-screens doesn’t mean anything — it’s not like the operating system or video card are designed specifically and exclusively to only work on 24-bit screens; of course they include that functionality.
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