I bought the new MBP yesterday. The screen looks great. I have experienced a little problem and I haven't had a chance to call Apple yet. I adjust the brigtness to very low at night. The computer automatically turned the brightness higher without someone touch the F2 key right in front of my eyes. It happed 5 or 6 times last night. The other problem with the new MBP is that some of the current Bootcamp drivers don't work. My Isight Cam, LAN NIC, Apple keyboard and some other drivers won't load under Windows Vista. The wireless drive does work.
Thanks for mentioning the driver issue. My main reason for looking at apple right now is to have a 1920x1200 1"thin PC notebook, and I need to know how well Vista Runs on these things. I'd like a review site where they just blast apples OS away and review Windows on the new Hardware.
It is part of the preferences you have set up that it automatically adjust the screen/keyboard brightness to the light in the room. My MacBook Pro does this automatically as well, so it is not an issue.
System Preferences -> Display
Uncheck the box that says "Automatically adjust brightness as ambient light changes"
Now it will act like you expect it to. I personally prefer it to auto adjust, too bright a screen in the dark is bad for ones eyes, and too light is also bad. But really that is up to you.
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I bought the new MBP yesterday. The screen looks great. I have experienced a little problem and I haven't had a chance to call Apple yet. I adjust the brigtness to very low at night. The computer automatically turned the brightness higher without someone touch the F2 key right in front of my eyes. It happed 5 or 6 times last night.
The other problem with the new MBP is that some of the current Bootcamp drivers don't work. My Isight Cam, LAN NIC, Apple keyboard and some other drivers won't load under Windows Vista. The wireless drive does work.
Hey Mike Ling,
Thanks for mentioning the driver issue. My main reason for looking at apple right now is to have a 1920x1200 1"thin PC notebook, and I need to know how well Vista Runs on these things. I'd like a review site where they just blast apples OS away and review Windows on the new Hardware.
Mike,
You can turn off the auto-dim setting in the control panel.
DS
Mike Ling:
It is part of the preferences you have set up that it automatically adjust the screen/keyboard brightness to the light in the room. My MacBook Pro does this automatically as well, so it is not an issue.
System Preferences -> Display
Uncheck the box that says "Automatically adjust brightness as ambient light changes"
Now it will act like you expect it to. I personally prefer it to auto adjust, too bright a screen in the dark is bad for ones eyes, and too light is also bad. But really that is up to you.