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admin on November 8th, 2008
To find out the LCD model (and manufacturer) of the display in your Macbook or Macbook pro, open a terminal window and paste the following code followed by enter:
ioreg -lw0 | grep IODisplayEDID | sed "/[^<]*</s///" | xxd -p -r | strings -6
This gives you e.g. the following information:
B133EW01 V0
Color LCD
The first line is the LCD model number, the second is the active color profile.
If you google the LCD Model number, you can find out more about your screen (contrast ratio, brightness).
For my screen (build into a 1st generation Macbook build in 8/2006) I get the following information:
Info about B133EW01 Screen Model
April 16th, 2009 at 1:37 am
LTN154BT
Mid 2008 Macbook Pro
Odd, 262k colors. Weren’t these advertised as having millions of colors?
“15.4-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit glossy widescreen display with support for millions of colors”
July 2nd, 2009 at 10:20 am
LP133WX1-TLA1
1st gen MacBook (white) summer 2006
July 4th, 2009 at 2:17 am
13″ 2.0 C2D intel MacBook – http://www.lgdisplay.com/homeC.....01_j_e.jsp
July 11th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
LTN133W1
I have a 9/2006 MacBook though, so it’s very strange that ours is so different.
August 4th, 2009 at 7:41 am
This is my Rev.A, MBA display type. I am still finding out the manufacturer.
N133I6-L01
Color LCD
August 9th, 2012 at 8:31 pm
A different version of this command is needed for the Retina MacBook.
It is:
ioreg -lw0 | grep \”EDID\” | sed “/[^<]*</s///" | xxd -p -r | strings -6
Hope it helps someone 🙂