I just hope they go before my good looks. But so far, eyes and looks are intact. I wonder if you can hawk a worn out eye on eBay. Probably not a brown one... Well, if you've got blue or grey eyes, you probably can.

As for the battery claim though... I'm sure it has more to do with backlighting. You don't need as much for grey as for color. Right?

When you have it on grays, I assume it's using only 8 bits instead of 32. I guess that would lighten the load on the graphics card and any drawing routines.

I haven't used grayscale mode much since OS 9, where it specifically said it was 8-bit. Back then I definitely noticed a speed increase, which was especially noticeable when watching movies that were a little too demanding for my old computer. But in OS X, grayscale mode sends my Exposй performance down the drain. I guess Quartz Extreme can only function in full color.

I tried doing this a couple of months ago with my iMac G5, and I was very surprised to find that my system graphics were actually SLOWER in grayscale mode.

At first I thought I was imagining things, but I ran numerous subjective tests - moving windows around, scrolling, and other actions that require rapid screen redraws - and the system was indeed more sluggish in greyscale. Don't know why, but that was my experience.

Since then I have worked to minimize color in my day-to-day use. My theme is the graphite one instead of Aqua; I've grayscaled my Dock icons and desktop pic, and I've removed unnecessary toolbars and such when using my favorite apps. Definitely much easier on the eyes overall - which, by the way, is why I believe Apple is moving to a more low-key, graphite-based UI for its apps like iTunes (and, presumably for all of Leopard).

I am going to try this, sometimes my old eyes are very tired.

Try Black on White - it's much easier on my eyes when reading text.

If you have followed the instructions above and set Grayscale, then, Black on White, the screen is still pretty glaring from all the white. YOu can also choose White on Black. If it's late and you just want some temporary relief from all that glaring color without going to the Universal Access Pref pane, you can press Control+Option+Command+8 and get a sort of hybird mostly-white-with-some-color on a black background. It's pretty cool.

I had a client call me with the inverse "problem" since I had never messed around with the Universal Access Pref I was baffled at first, took me a few minutes to find the solution but yes the screen was odd but cool at the same time. What was odd was the fact that Apple Support was unable to come to a conclusion as to why his screen was inversed even after being bounced up the support ladder.

How can i do this on Windows platform?
It'seem there is no way to do this!
Is that right?

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Anonymous wrote:
How can i do this on Windows platform?
It'seem there is no way to do this!
Is that right?

I have no idea. Is it right? By Microsoft's standards, quite possibly. But you're asking the wrong people. Try www.microsoftobserver.com, or www.windowsobserver.com (which does actually exist) or www.billgatesIwillcopyMacOSeventually.com (which, surprisingly, doesn't).