macbook pro displays (before the oled) have always caused a weird sort of eyestrain and become hard to read after a few hours of usage for me. i have never pinned down exactly what causes it- some internet threads talk about "temporal dithering" complete with weird extensions that may or may not disable it. sometimes i wonder if it's the glossy display (although oddly sometimes it appears to affect me with external displays). i don't know if it's the glare from the gloss, the antialiasing of the fonts or something about the refresh? i have played with all the refresh rate "pro-motion" knobs, it doesn't seem to matter. many of my thinkpads have used pwm dimming, so it's not that. it has been an issue for me on both intel and aarch macbooks.
it would be interesting to get a high speed camera and see if there's a difference in the temporal dimension as well as a careful analysis of the font rendering. it would be funny if there were some kind of metamer noise in there or something that only some people have sensitivity to.
i would also be curious if the matte display option solves it (or has solved it for anyone else).
it would be interesting to get a high speed camera and see if there's a difference in the temporal dimension as well as a careful analysis of the font rendering. it would be funny if there were some kind of metamer noise in there or something that only some people have sensitivity to.
i would also be curious if the matte display option solves it (or has solved it for anyone else).