Flexview displays - 6/18 bit or 8/24 bit?

[noetus]

I've just been reading about theclass action lawsuit against Apple regarding the "millions of colors" that they claim their MacBook/Pro displays are capable of. That implies the screen is 8 bit per R-G-B pixel (16 million colors total) but in fact, apparently, their displays are 6 bit and use dithering to create the illusion of more colors. Does anyone know what the implications of this are for Thinkpad displays? Users complain of "sparkly" screens on their MacBook/Pros, just as some people have complained about "sparkly" IPS panels on T4xp and T6xp machines. Are Flexviews using dithering, too? Are any Thinkpad displays the full 8 bit? (It's striking how rubbish LCD displays are, in general, isn't it? I can't wait until this is outdated technology.)

I've searched the forums but couldn't find any postings about this - perhaps I'm not using the right keywords.

Incidentally, the guy on that ArsTechnica post who (jokingly) implies that LCD screens "only" really display 3 colors, R,G,B, and create the illusion of more (and is therefore off to file another lawsuit) is using an argument that wouldn't hold up in court, as far as I can tell. Transmissive displays use Red, Green, Blue to CREATE colors since those are the physical components of colors in actual fact - in the physical world. The dithering of 6 bit displays doesn't CREATE any colors, it TRICKS the eye into perceiving more colors than are really there via a sort of optical illusion. Quite a different thing. And since the de facto way of quoting the technical capabilities of displays in the computer industry has always been "x number of colors" = "so many bits used in the component colors" Apply does seem to be at fault here, if not de jure, then at least de facto.