Yellowish tint Acer Nitro 5 AN517-51-57TK

Just1

Hello, I just bought an Acer Nitro 5 AN517-51-57TK. Thing is, the display has a yellowish tint and even after color calibration, the colors are still way off and dull.
I'd like to know if i'm the only one having this issue on this model or if the issue is a "feature" of the model.

The problem isn't drivers nor windows related, since the tint is still here in the BIOS and on Linux (even on other windows)

aphanic

Nope, the "problem" has to do with the LCD panel itself.

Generally they're not color accurate, unless you pay good money for it, have them properly calibrated (with equipment for it, not via software means), or they're advertised as such in the laptop specs.

Some tend to the warmer side of things (hence your yellowish tint), others tend to be colder and can look like having a blue-ish tone. It happens to many electronics, like mobile phones, because not only a single panel is used for each model but whatever is in stock or cheaper at the time of manufacturing.

Which is not a bad thing per se, as long as the panels meet the requirements marked by the manufacturer one would be equivalent to another, but in reality either the specs given to LCD manufacturers aren't precise enough and these kinds of things happen or it slipped through QA. I'm inclined to think it's the former, since I've seen laptops from the same sub-model but manufactured at different times shipping with wildly different panels (to the point that one was a TN one and the other AHVA or possibly IPS).

I'm curious though, which panel do you have? You can see it through HWiNFO, if other users of AN517-51 chime in you could compare them and see if anyone with the same panel as yours see the same warmer tones by default.

This is what you're looking for, this is from an A515-54G: