Greyish Smudge marks behind the glass screen.

I have a 21.5 iMac bought in November 2009.

There appears to be numerous greyish smudge marks behind the glass screen on the top left hand corner.

It was not apparent to me at first, but after I started using OMMWriter it became easily visible. I also tried placing a neutral white background like TextEdit and it was easily visible even then.

I have cleaned the screen on numerous occasions and it has not had any effect.

What should I do?

These spots are quite disturbing.

iMac 21.5, November 2009, Mac OS X (10.6.2)

Posted on Jan 15, 2010 10:55 AM

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Jul 3, 2013 10:26 AM in response to swapnonil

I have the same problem. My screen looks similar to Seyumi's screen. I own a 2011 27inch Imac. I read somewhere that if you turn down your brightness about half way or turn off your computer for a long period of time, the water like stain should go away. I tried it and bam! The grey stain was gone. It does suck though not being able to have my computer on 24 hours a day or have the brightness up all of the way, but whatever it keeps me away from applecare.

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