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Re:Apple used lower brightness setting for showcasing M1's s... by zepto on Saturday November 14, 2020 @12:19AM (#25090486)
Your headline is a lie.

You suspect they used a different screen brightness, but you don’t actually know.

It’s easily possible that the different laptops have a different number of clicks in their bightness settings since they use different panels.

I agree that it would be better for them to use a nits value or some other objective measure.

You however don’t know what the value is and so have made a false claim with your headline.

How about updating the headline to a question or a suspicion?

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Re:Apple used lower brightness setting for showcasing M1's s... by d3mon on Saturday November 14, 2020 @12:51AM (#25090582)
They likely use the same panel and settings, but your request is reasonable. Edited the title.
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Re:Apple used lower brightness setting for showcasing M1's s... by zepto on Saturday November 14, 2020 @01:09AM (#25090625)
Doesn’t look meaningfully different to me.
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Re:Apple used lower brightness setting for showcasing M1's s... by d3mon on Saturday November 14, 2020 @01:24AM (#25090657)
Explicitly stated brightness setting instead of screen brightness.
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Re:Apple used lower brightness setting for showcasing M1's s... by zepto on Saturday November 14, 2020 @01:29AM (#25090667)
It’s now ambiguous rather than explicit but you are still creating the same impression.

I know it is your intent to make it seem like they cheated.

You have no evidence for this - only a guess.

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