Flickering screen when scrolling

I had the same problem (MBA 13" 2.13, 4GB) and Apple replaced it immediately when I took it to the Apple Store in Palo Alto, CA. You may want to check with Apple.

The same for me - slight but noticeable and rather irritating.

My Air is 13inch fully specced.

I also have this problem with the 11.6 inch. Anyone know whether this will be fixed with an update or do I need to take it back and get it replaced? Its not a major issue just frustrating! Is this a problem that ALL macbook air users are experiencing?

I saw the flicker when playing around with a 13'' in my local Apple store. I thought maybe an upgraded graphics card/memory might not show the same results, but it appears there is no "upgrade" for graphics when building your own on the Web Store.

I went over to a 15'' MBP and tried the same scrolling I had done on the 13" Air and no flicker. An 11" in my local Apple store also had the flicker behavior. I did not think to ask a store rep about it, just figured that was normal.

My own 13" MacBook Air (late 2010) also shows flickering when scrolling the screen. I tried this LCD test which is, as far as I understand, designed to detect the cause of this problem:

http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/inversion.php

In my case, I see strong flicker on test pattern 3. To be more precise: at full screen brightness, the flicker on test pattern 3 is still visible from about 1.5 meters distance to the screen.

I did a quick test on two other 13" MacBook Air in two stores, and neither seemed to show similar flicker in the test. I did however forget to turn up their screen brightness, so I'm not entirely sure they did not suffer from the same problem. (The problem is less visible at lower screen brightness.)

As far as I understand, this is a hardware problem that can not be fixed through software. I would be interested in knowing whether Apple repairs this under warranty conditions, or replaces the screen/machine if you recently bought it.

I get flicker in #3 that, as you described it, is more prominent the higher the brightness setting.

Can you confirm that the problem doesn't exist anymore with your new MBA?

When running the test, I see a strong flicker in all of the boxes, but never have seen a flicker on the MBA without running that test. I just wanted to see what you all were talking about.

What I see is a flickering phenomena, only during vertical scrolling, which affects really the quality of the display. It affects also the color of some colored fonts: during the scroll, I can observe for example a deep blue color changing into a light blue one!
The flickering is so annoying that I would like to give my brand new MBA back to the shop and get my money back, although I find this machine fantastic on all other aspects.
But how can I convince the seller that my machine does behave quiet strange if 3 other MBA in the showroom are showing the same display weakness.
I can't imagine that I and my eyes are too sensitive with regards to this issue.
This is my first Mac, I have an iPad which doesn't show the problem when scrolling and I never experienced such a thing with a PC laptop for the past 15 years....
Please, I need feedback on this issue. I will be contacting Apple Care tomorrow for the second time since my Macline shop is reluctant to exchange the machine.
Thanks for your help.
Please, note there is another thread on the same topic.

No other flickering scroll reported?

My machine has the same problem.
I've got a 2010 mac book pro with hi-res anti-glare matte screen.
I intend to take it back to an authorized mac dealer and get it sorted out before the warranty expires.
I hope they can replace it or fix it without breaking something else!
Apart from that I like the machine a lot.

I had post this issue at Nov 2009 check this topic : Screen Tearing?
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2205868&start=0&tstart=0
My macbook’s mainboard was replaced for some extra reasons. The flicker issue still remains but not so annoying this time. Many people that I asked also experience the same issue which they did not realize until I told them.
In the test I see a strong flicker in all of the boxes as I am scrolling down and the 4a box flickers without scrolling at all.

Thanks for the test link!

My 13" MBA performs miserably on all of the test images. Just the slightest vertical scroll causes all of the images to momentarily dim... leading to flickering if the scrolling is continued.

The same test on my 27" iMac produces a slight dimming only in images 5 and 6b when a slight vertical scroll is attempted.

This behavior of the MBA screen is quite annoying... I hope a fix will be forthcoming... but it's not a deal breaker!

How we can be so sure that this is only a problem of Mac's hardware or a Mac OS X? Does anyone test those boxes in a PC? As I remembered my Pc in my office has also some kind of trouble with Firefox.

I noticed the same on my new 15 inch anti-glare MacBook Pro. I used Firefox 4 and this issue clearly popped out on this site:
http://sage.ucsc.edu/~wgscott/xtal/wiki/index.php/Unixand_OS_X:_The_AbsoluteEssentials

If you have the problem, you can see it when scrolling up and down the page slowly. Fonts are dimming and brightening up. Theres some dashed lines and white table borders that also suffer this flickering.

I went to a market and tested other MacBooks with glossy screens. I used the same site for testing. I noticed flickering with all MacBook Pros (13",15" and 17"). There was no screen tearing, but I noticed later that it was because of Firefox 4. See: http://support.mozilla.com/pa-IN/questions/806026.

Even the basic MacBook had a little flickering, but not so noticable or disturbing.

At home I plugged my HP LP2475w display in to my MacBook Pro and there's no flickering on that even with slow smooth scrolling. So I deduce that this is not caused by graphics card, but by the display itself.

This problem is not only limited to web browsers. You can reproduce the flickering by opening TextEdit on full screen, writing text so that scrolling is enabled and scrolling it up and down. If you are in dark room you can't miss it, the aluminium surface in front of the display is flashing in light. This flashing is not happening on my external display.

I have tried to change settings in System Preferences > Appearance, but it doesn't have any effect.

I expected to get a high quality display. I have never seen this kind of thing before. It's straining my eyes in dark environment. Is this normal on LCD displays?