Thread: Color Choices
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Old 03-01-2009, 01:17 PM   #12
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When I was in the store, I was leaning towards the silver one, just for the overall look. But they had all three on display, and I was pretty confident that the "white" on the silver one was actually a tad darker. I initially assumed it was my mind playing tricks on me, but I held the silver one's border up over the blue ones screen (so that there would be bluescreen--silveredge--silverscreen, to hopefully eliminate optical illusions), and it really did look like THAT unit had a darker background. The "ink" didn't seem to be any darker to compensate or balance it out.

I'm sure that was probably just some degree of manufacturing variation, but I couldn't know that for sure...so just in case.. I got the blue one.

Using the same little test, the red one's screen appeared the same as the blue one's. It was only the silver one that looked darker. Again, I'm 90% sure that this was probably particular to that one silver unit. I only bought the blue one because 10% doubt was stronger than any color preference I had.
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