MacBook Pro Retina display burn-in?

It seems displays has not changed on late 2013 retina macbook pro's, which means defected display lottery continues.

For me, I was planning on buying late 2013 retina macbook pro but now I would not want to buy any of retina macbook pro cause I was refunded a 2012 rMBP with defected LG display last time.

I say if you want one buy one, you may get a Samsung you may get a LG. How do you know that all LG displays are defective, after the problems they has last year they could be fixed, who knows LG could be better that Samsung now.

Well Dimme, if current repairs are anything to go by, LGs are still proving faulty. About 3-4 weeks ago had a 1st Gen LG replaced by the Apple genius bar with a second gen LG. No IR but nice pink to green/yellow gradient.Going in again for another repair 🙂

The LG screen on my 2012 15" MBPr had really bad IR so I am well-aware of what to look for. My new MBPr 15" also has an LG (LP154WT1-SJE1) and so far it hasn't exhibited any signs of IR yet. Just to add to the data points...

If you are un the market for a 15" I would say go buy one. If you get a screen from LG which will most likely exhibit IR just go to the Genius Bar and get the screen replace by à

a Samsung one. The real problem in my opinion is for the 13" buyers because as far as we know every screen are from LG and are touch by IR (sometimes not out of the box but it starts months later) and all the Genius Bar will do is replace your screen with another defective one (if they accept to change it) so the 13" (even thought aside of the IR is a great computer) is a no buy for me.

So basically an update to my original posts is....

Visited the genius bar today, complained a little and voiced my concearns of 3 or 4 IR tests, mutliple calls to apple care and they ran another test, apparently it did pass the test ( withing spec) and they still agreed to replace the screen. Bonus!

1 hour passes and I get a call, the screen is done and installed ready to collect, opened it up there and then and ran the terminal command to find...

LSN154YL01001

DLM319301K2FDR6AB

It's a Samsung, don't like the screen as much as the LG it originally had, but as long as this is all I find wrond with it, compared to the awfull IR on the LG it's much better.

Anyone got/had any issues with this model samsung after any amount of time?

twosix79 wrote:

Anyone got/had any issues with this model samsung after any amount of time?

Yeah, it's hideously yellow even after calibration. If I had received this display as my first display I would have returned the machine so I don't know why I should accept it as a replacement. Complained to the Genius Bar 3 times and they refuse to take it back.

I've had my Early 2013 15" rMBP with the LG SJA2 display for over 6 months now, and have used it every day anywhere from 3-4 hours to 8-9 hours, and have no ghosting or image persistence whatsoever.

I'm not sure if the SJA2 actually fixed it, or whether they simply improved their quality control such that fewer SJA2 displays are defective.

twosix79 wrote:

It's a Samsung, don't like the screen as much as the LG it originally had, but as long as this is all I find wrond with it, [...]

You never actually said what it was that you found wrong with it (the Samsung).

-- Nathan

Okay, so this is what we know so far:

15" mid-2012 A00E - Samsung

15" mid-2012 A00F - LG

13" late-2012 ?

15" early-2013 ?

13" early-2013 ?

15" late-2013 A022 - Samsung

15" late-2013 A019 - LG

13" late-2013 A018 - ?

13" late-2013 A020 - ?

Hopefully we can continue to fill in some of these holes. 🙂

-- Nathan

Hi

I picked up the 15" 2.6, 1tb with Samsung display last Friday at the local Apple store. Everything looks fine and machine runs good. I have waited to purchase the haswell model after I returned the early Retina last December when I recevied the LG model with IR. I went through many chapters to return machine and previously left my long written concerns on this message board whcih no longer appear in this discussion. I decided to wait to see if the QC and the supply chain got figured out.

My impression is to early to assess if IR will come creeping back like it did after several weeks.

Best Regards

Yeah sorry bit of quick post. Just a slight yellow to the screen but this is compared to an LG mid 2012 (a nicer colour) but with very bad IR.

No gradient of colour just an all over slight yellow, a couple of calibrated profiles I have downloaded tonight at home have helped but will properly calibrate tomorrow at work in the studio and check the results.

I have been silently following this thread for the past year and held off purchasing a Retina Macbook Pro until this latest Haswell refresh. Due to my need for a computer I recently pulled the trigger and purchased a 15" Retina Macbook Pro (2.3 Ghz Quad Core, 16 GB RAM, 512 GB SSD). The machine arrived today and I immediately verified that it contains the LG Panel. I have performed numerous image retention tests over the course of the day and have not seen any IR. The screen's colors look absolutely amazing and I have been unable to find any defects.

Screen Information:

A019

LP154WT1-SJE1

DCN336700E6FF0NB1

mr_tom wrote:

"Screen Information:

A019

LP154WT1-SJE1

DCN336700E6FF0NB1"

I may be mistaken, but I think that's the first "SJE1" panel that I've seen. Only time will tell though if that really means anything though.

I just received my rMBP, BTO: 16 GB, 1 TB, 2.6 Ghz. colors are absolutely brilliant with no trace of yellowing. As of now, there is no IR, but that could take a while to develop. Time will tell. I'm not sure where the "A019" comes from, but my teminal specs are:

Color LCD

LP154WT1-SJE1

DCN335329TQFF0NB4

The SJE1 seems to indicate a new generation of LG screen.