13" MacBook Pro 2017 - Blinking horizontal lines at the top of the screen

well there is no guarantee that the problem will not happen even after you replace your full laptop monitor for whooping $800. So I don't recommend anyone to replace it. Till apple hits with Law suit I don't think there is any chance apple will offer repair to us. In phone they directly said pay store whatever they demands and they don't have any control over store. I told them its their defect but they answer me pay what store demands.

To make a conclusion, we are not going to get free repair and even if we repair by paying the same problem can happen after 1-2 year.

Yeah, I see complains even about that, this is so sad... at first I didn't want to buy a Apple product because I knew about a lot of complaints.

I bought this MBP 2017 and, really, I was so satisfied, until a week ago, I regret all, seriously, they should read that.

I report also this curious fact: when i move the cursor onto these lines, there is a coloured staff that appears and then disappears, anyone else with that? Notice also that with heavy running lines get darker

I think someone needs to figure out exactly what's failing. Because when you call them, which I had over two hours of conversation with some super senior technicians, they are instantly thinking you dropped your MacBook damaged the screen now trying to get something for free, which is not the case.

I considered this solution too, but honestly, i have a feeling that this is not the real one.

I would like to solve the problem once and for all, i mean, using the computer like before, it's our right.

Instead, i feel that now you have to be strictly careful on what you do, if you overuse your computer.

Guys, i am not a NASA scientist, but i am a developer, probably like some of you and i could use my laptop for more than 4-5 hours, if Apple cannot guarantee this performance after 2 years, it's time to lower the price

when the macbook working long enough, this issues will happen, not only in high temperature but in low temperature.then i make the screen sleeping for a while,it will go fine, after seconds or some minite ,it happend again.....

anyway nobody should repair it for 800$ for 3 year old laptop when you can add $400 and get new apple m1 2020 which is 3x fast[?]. Apple making repair costs looks like forcing people to buy new macbook so at the end they will profit.

And in this forum moderator deletes message/ edit messages anyway making it even worst. They don't help but they make sure there is no message that proves apple is bad.

SERIOUSLY? Because i read your message two days ago and i saw it disappeared, thinking that you deleted it, so you didn't.

That's so a shame. I will start doing screenshots.

For sure i will never buy a new model, and replace it for that price.

There are horizontal lines blinking on the whole screen.

Model: MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2017, four Thunderbolt 3 ports)

Communicate with the genius ,they keep saying this model is not under their services program and keep denying that is is their design flaw.

I do have same issue. Started with thin line on bottom. And it is same like yours like 1-2 inch of dark. There is no damage but apple thinks its the user mistake so they want you to pay 800$. If you refuse they wont repair your laptop. And if you go and chat with support they say "They haven't heard any issue so you have to pay what store demands".

Meanwhile Apple is enjoying the success of M1 and here we are left with broken 2017 defect piece.

It would be great if they say our (user) mistake and we will not do it again. When it is cold especially just after opening the lid for the first time in a day, my screen is perfect, but after it starts to get warm, bottom of the screen becomes dark and the hotter it is, the worse it become. How can it be my fault? I really don't understand.

Simply because it's not, everybody knows that: when i had my assistance on telephone, it sounded like an investigation on my each single behavior that could sound dangerous for the computer, and as soon as it could be candidate of wrong usage, it sounded like my fault, everytime.

Things like "you use it too much, you keep the display on for too much, you have filled too much your cache", guess how many times they tried to speculate if it could be their mistake: yes, exactly, Z-E-R-O. This tells a lot about their policy...

And, of course, i know how to take care of my laptop, but still, i want to underline something: the price of this computer was almost 2000 euros, i don't expect to stress it, drop it and crash it without consequences, but of course i didn't do anything like that, is this product worthy if its life expectation is explicitly 2 years?

What makes me even more nervous is that the more time passes, the more i could accidentally do anything wrong to my computer: it's like they are not only ignoring us, but also letting things worsen deliberately.

Same problem here on a 13-inch, 2017, Two Thunderbolt 3 ports.

Issue appears on the top of the screen when I'm using it for a long time.

HOWEVER, I can see the "faulty" lines with some colors even if its still cold.

When I use the laptop for 2-3 hours it appears like that (see below)

I tried going through the same route. Even though the Apple representative on the phone accepted after much insisting that such a program insisted, the repair technicians told me it wouldn’t be possible to repair my screen ‘because of the appearance of lines’.

Even though my claim is valid, I was turned away yet again. This was in India. Where did you get this done?

Guys I guess there is no point of posting here. Here moderator deletes every comments. They will email you saying your comment doesn't have constructive criticism. Moderator think they are god.

Apple support think their product can't have any defect. If you talk to support they think tcon placement near to heatsink is fine. If laptop doesn't gets damaged how would apple store gets $800 usd ransom? They intentionally do these thing so people would buy their new macbooks .