Surface Pro 2, All Images Being Dithered?

[eelpout]

Lagom gradient banding page, Firefox grey gradients extend the furthest towards the edge. But Chrome seems to have the smoothest gradients.

Try saving the Lagom gradient as a local JPEG, then view it on the desktop with a photo/paint program and see what you get.

 

[jefhart]

It was a Best Buy purchase so I simply asked for the exchanged unit to be from lot numbers 1351 or higher. They happily complied.

Damn, I exchanged mine from corporate yesterday and I got another 4200.

 

[beq]

Try saving the Lagom gradient as a local JPEG, then view it on the desktop with a photo/paint program and see what you get.

Thanks, I viewed the downloaded image files on various metro & desktop photo apps. Also minor differences here and there, but never a smooth gradation on my SP2.

I did get the noticeably best result on my SP2 (such as it is) from Photoshop CC. Other apps were a bit worse to one degree or another. For example the Windows 8.1 Photos app showed perhaps the worst brown background dithering on that SmugMug test image.

To be clear, our SP2's don't look nearly as bad as your original unit. But they don't look as continuous tone as my desktop monitor or jnjroach's stock SP2 result...

 

[eelpout]

Did you ever try the newer Intel drivers?