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Grey Lines Mar MacBook Air Displays

Posted by kdawson on from the pin-stripes-are-vertical dept.

adamengst writes "Numerous users have been complaining about grey lines that muddy the crispness of the displays of the recently updated MacBook Air. Doug McLean explains the problem in TidBITS, along with what Apple appears to be doing about it."

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  1. Re:tag: appleispants by jeffasselin · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Ok, I get to ask this question now: WTF does this "pants" meme means?

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    If he explores all forms and substances Straight homeward to their symbol-essences; He shall not die.
  2. Re:No surprise by Mr.+Underbridge · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If it wasn't for the fact that LaTeX documents that build in 10 seconds on the MBP take over a minute on the PowerBook, I'd be tempted to switch back to it.

    You're not compiling the whole document every time, are you? I wrote my Ph.D. thesis (couple hundred pages with lots o' figures) in LaTeX on a Powerbook 1.25 GHz, and it certainly took me about a minute if I rebuilt the whole thing. However, if I recall I broke it up so it compiled in chunks and only rebuilt sections whose source had changed. I believe I was compiling each chapter in about 5-10 seconds, and the whole thing in about a minute if I wiped all the object files.

    Been a few years, though.