Anyone else experiencing eye strain on M1530 LED LCD?

[Wolfpup]

Huh. Must be something that only affects some people. For me, I can't go back to florescent lighting.

I guess I'm glad my eyes don't work well enough to see that flicker?

[elwood]

ugghh... I am having the exact same problem. But I was in denial until I found this thread. I hope that my eyes get used to it because I don't want to send my new computer back.

Interestingly, there is a lot of similar complaints on the new MacBook Pro. You can check out a discussion here. discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1677617&tstart=0
(it wouldn't let me post a url so I left off the preffix)

But they all recommend turning the brightness up all the way to reduce the eye strain. They claim at lower levels of brightness, the flicker increases.

Can anyone confirm that their eyes have gotten used to it? I really don't want to return mine and if someone else has gotten used to it then it will give me hopes that I can do the same.

Mine is perfect now. Go to the Nvidia Control Panel (right-click desktop) and try these settings:

Brightness: 32%
Digital Vibrance: 46%
Contrast: 10%
Image Sharpening: (greyed out) None
Gamma: 39%

Thats with the laptop brightness at two notches below the highest.

Good luck!

[millermagic]

Is it a glossy screen? I've had some issues on my glossy LCD before. Never had any problems with a matte screen.

[gpzbc]

Mine is perfect now. Go to the Nvidia Control Panel (right-click desktop) and try these settings:

Brightness: 32%
Digital Vibrance: 46%
Contrast: 10%
Image Sharpening: (greyed out) None
Gamma: 39%

Thats with the laptop brightness at two notches below the highest.

Good luck!

Thanks!
I'll give it a try. I am currently trying keeping the brightness turned all the way up. I read that lower settings increase flicker.

[gpzbc]

Is it a glossy screen? I've had some issues on my glossy LCD before. Never had any problems with a matte screen.

Yep, it's glossy.

[gpzbc]

For all of you doubters out there. I replaced my LED screen for a non-LED screen and the eye strain headaches were gone instantly. 100% gone!
No doubt about it.

[gpzbc]

I just want to re-emphasize that I traded in my LED glossy screen for a non-LED glossy screen. My eye strain headaches were gone instantly and I have never seen them since despite the fact that I am still using a glossy screen.

Oh, and by the way, I went to the eye doctor recently and my eyes are approximately the same as they have always been.

There is no doubt that LED was giving me a miserable headache. Perhaps it was me and not all users will have the same reaction. But, with that being said, I would urge all to take caution with the new LED screens.

[Wolfpup]

Any idea why that was? The technology doesn't cause issues like that for most people, but I've no doubt it can for some...probably any display technology does for some. In the case of LED backlighting, I *think* it's turning the lights on and off quickly to simulate different brightness levels, which is maybe the issue?

I *think* more people are affected by florescent lights though, as a lot of people can't tolerate them. For myself personally I think I'm less bothered by my LED backlit displays than florescent, but the latter's not bad for me either, thankfully.

[gpzbc]

I wish it wasn't a problem for me. I LOVED the LED screen. It used less battery, it was brighter in sunny conditions, and I like the way it looked. But I spent the entire month that I was using the LED screen with motion sickness symptoms.

I tried everything to convince myself that it wasn't that bad. In fact, at one point I decided that I was going to keep it despite the effects but my wife finally snapped me out of it. She asked me, "Why keep something that you can't use for more than ten minutes with out feeling like sh*t?"
So that is when I exchanged it.

I'm sure it won't affect everyone, but it happened to me and judging from my google searches, it is happening to a fair number of other people, I would say there is a problem. The manufacturers have to know about it, even if there is only something like a 5% chance of occurrence. Perhaps it will become more of an issue when LED backlighting becomes more prevalent in more computers and HDTVs. Either that, or it will simply go away as the technology is improved.

By the way, I think it was the flicker, not the brightness that made me sick. I tried turning the brightness down but that only increases LED flicker (do some research on LED lights). And I tried full brightness with good sunglasses and that didn't help. It was quite funny. I wore my sunglasses every time I was on the computer for a few weeks.

Check out this flicker test: http://www.csse.uwa.edu.au/~lucas/background.html
It is steady on my non-LED glossy screen but it jumped around like crazy on my LED glossy screen. That is what confirmed it for me.

Here are some more forums where people are experiencing similar effects. The first one is a helpful read.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread....sageID=8372390
http://discussions.apple.com/thread....77617&tstart=0
LED Screen and Headaches?

Good Luck!

[abaumm78]

My daughter got an Acer Aspire One, which has an LED screen, and I can't be on it more than 10 minutes or so before I have severe eye strain and feel sick to my stomach. I'm a designer and stare at the computer often for 8 hours straight at work, and have never had these symptoms, and I've never had them with my trusty (but ancient) Gateway pc at home.

I'm glad to have found the two threads on this issue, in this forum. I use her laptop quite a bit and had planned on getting one for myself soon (not an Acer, that's for sure...but that's another story). But I'll be sure not to get an LED screen now that I've finally figured out after two months that it's the LED screen causing the problem. In the meantime, I've tried turning up the screen brightness to max, which was unbearable, and now it's a little less than max...still uncomfortably bright, but it does seem to have improved the motion sickness and eye strain symptoms...I just can hardly look at the screen...lol.

I'm going to see if I can get used to the brightness. Are there any other suggestions other than swapping out her laptop completely?