images in cross-platform stacks

[Sarah Reichelt]

On 5/18/06, Martin Baxter <mb.ur at harbourhosting.co.uk> wrote:
> Richard Gaskin wrote:
> > Not being a graphics pro, I don't care one way or the other what the
> > gamma's set to, as long as it's consistent across platforms.  If Apple's
> > default setting is a better match to the real world, will PC
> > makers/Microsoft follow suit?
> >
>
> It's on the outer fringes of likelihood I think. but if Tom McGrath's
> Cinema display is factory set to a gamma of 2.2 as he states, then it
> seems we can no longer assume that Apple systems always ship with gamma
> set to a default of 1.8, - your dreams have actually already come true!
> and we're just fogeys discussing history. :-)

My brand new Intel iMac is set to 1.8, which is labelled as "Mac
standard", so I don't think Apple has changed yet, at least not in the
all-in-one models.

Sarah