Comments on: Snow Leopard vs. 3rd Party LCD Displays

By: CS James Adams

CS James Adams — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:06:33 +0000

I have this problem with one of my cheaper generic brand monitors Nothing gives me a migraine faster.

By: Kelvin Lee

Kelvin Lee — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 07:10:53 +0000

I have to use terminal to workt with GIT very often. It’s killing me to see beautiful font anti-aliasing on my MBP and the crappy on my Mac mini, particularly when they are lying on my table side by side. Thanks CWS for the fix and jiang for the great blog!

By: estudio villegas

estudio villegas — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:31:03 +0000

Figures. I have the exact same problem with an Acer monitor

By: Jacoby

Jacoby — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:40:38 +0000

Can anyone in here help me? I tried the defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 1 command in terminal. Now it looks even worse, with colors on the text. how can i undo this and get it back to the way it was originally? Im not good with terminal. Thanks!

By: fanfan

fanfan — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 09:58:50 +0000

I found it. As the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpixel_rendering said, take a screen shot with text in it, then enlarge the picture and check if the the text is multicolor or not.

By: fanfan

fanfan — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 12:12:18 +0000

Hi, How did you know “monitor is not recorgnized as a LCD display in Leopard”? I have dell sp2208wfp, and it has color profile named “sp2208wfp” ….

By: jjgod

jjgod — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 21:30:18 +0000

@Andras: I haven’t tried connecting it with a VGA adaptor, could be the problem.

By: Andras

Andras — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 22:30:17 +0000

I’ve tried every fixes you mentioned with no success. My config still have jagged fonts (Mac mini late 2009, Snow Leopard, LG L1718S monitor with miniDVI – VGA connection.

By: Diseño Web

Diseño Web — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 12:59:51 +0000

I hope Apple just comes with a fix for this, because reading on my monitor is so much less comfortable now.

By: alfred liwanag, Jr.

alfred liwanag, Jr. — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:52:34 +0000

Because Microsoft and Apple released their new operating systems almost simultaneously, it is not surprising for computer enthusiasts to compare Microsoft’s Windows 7 with Apple’s Snow Leopard to see which is better. But while hardcore fans on both sides will always refuse to give in to the other on the issue of which operating system is better, it may be a better idea simply to compare the differences of the two. Windows 7 vs. Snow Leopard: Five Main Differences