20-inch iMac owner sues for lack of colors

The case comes on the heels of a suit by two professional photographers who claimed that Apple falsely advertised the quality and capabilities of its MacBook and MacBook Pro notebook displays. That suit was settled just a week ago on 26 March 2008.

The new suit claims that the displays on the latest 20-inch iMacs are only capable of 6-bit-per-pixel color – 98% fewer colors than Apple promises.

Specifically, the firm takes issue with a marketing claim from the Mac maker that both the 20-inch and 24-inch iMac are capable of displaying “millions of colors at all resolutions." While this claim holds true for the current 24-inch model and previous generation 20-inch model -- both of which display 16,777,216 colors on 8-bit, in-plane switching (IPS) screens -- the new 20-inch iMac display is said to be capable of 98 percent fewer colors (262,144).

According to Slashdot the law firm "claims that the new display is the 'least expensive of its type,' sporting a narrower viewing angle than the display of the 24-inch model, less color depth, less color accuracy, and greater susceptibility to washout."