MacBook Pro Retina display burn-in?

Got my rMBP last Thursday and so far so good. I've got the LG panel and ran the checker board test a number of times and so far not a hint of IR. My panel info is:

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How do i determine the manufacture date of the panel?

clipcarl wrote:

bjiibj wrote:

It never ceases to amaze me how defensive people get when they are hysterical and others won't join in their hysteria. It's like a personal insult to them that anyone would try to have a level head about this issue.

It never ceases to amaze me how defensive people get when you suggest that their favorite company isn't perfect and that when you pay a premium price for a premium product you should get premium quality.

There isn't a single person on this thread (OK, maybe there was one, a long time ago) who suggested otherwise.

seank92 wrote:

This is a huge screw up by Apple, and believe me, i am a big apple fan since the iPod and mainly since my iPhone 3G. I have owned the 3G,4, and will be buying the 5. I had an iPod nano, i have an iPad 2. and this is my first mac. I want this computer because it is super nice, but it better work well.

I am not going crazy over this issue, seeing as i won't be able to get home and look at mine until tomorrow.

In reality, many of us are buying this computer for work. And a cra ppy screen is not good.

Accepting something from apple that is subpar is stupid.

I can go get a 900 PC with a screen that works better (may not exactly look better) but it will work better

NOBODY, except maybe one poster a while back, suggested that anyone should accept this. But what so many people cannot seem to comprehend, is how a suggestion that WAITING until Apple has a chance to actually come up with a fix for this issue, for those people for whom the issue does NOT MATERIALLY IMPACT their daily use of the device (and I am pretty confident that MOST users fall into this camp), DOES NOT equate to accepting the problem. It equates to solving the problem in a MORE REASONABLE WAY that wastes less of your time and less of Apple's time.

And you ARE being hysterical if, in response to reasonable discussion about the issue, you feel the need to descend into personal attacks, i.e. calling people fanboys, for no reason other than having a difference of opinion.

I guess none of us know if Apple is going to eventually decide the image retention is "a feature, not a bug", so I suppose there is some risk there. But I for one know that I will give Apple a VERY hard time if this ends up being their ultimate response. And I suspect there are many others who will do the same. But I have faith that Apple is not going to leave the early adopters of one of its highest profile products out in the cold like that.

lionhoho wrote:

thanks but I really don't know how to drop my project for 5 days. I just can't imaging. Otherwise I need to copy 200G data back to old pc and use it as alternative for these days, then I need to figure out all the accounts and data which sync with MBP already.

Are you really unable to work on your laptop at all because of the image retention problem? Can you just ride it out for a while?

I've been repeating this for a while now, but I guess even I don't know exactly how long it is acceptable to wait. I'm thinking I'll give Apple another month to recognize and address the issue in a public way before I start raising a stink.

evilZardoz wrote:

Can someone comment on the colour differences between the Samsung and LG panels, especally in the colour tint of the white and the blue?

Lots of people have posted their own personal opinions but as far as I know nobody has done any real measurements to verify them.

I have written to Anand Lal Shimpi at Anandtech asking if he would consider addressing the issue. He is one of the most respected independent reviewers of Mac hardware and I think he has the tools and expertise to add some useful measurements to our suppositions.

However, he hasn't answered back in almost a week. Kind of disappointing.

Kind of strange that this thread has become so big, but nearly no tech magazine has reported the issue . . .

It's been reported on several news websites.

I've seen only 2. Could you please post other links? It would be very kind of you.

Same issuse...

Color LCD

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BURN-IN EFFECT RETINA DISPLAY:

http://youtu.be/oitKRax1QXc

Over on Macrumors, they're talking about 13" retina MBAs coming out sometime in the fall. They got this from some info on CNet. I'm not sure how much truth there is to it. Something about a large number of 13" panels being manufactured or something like that. Anyway, story's over on the macrumors front page. The interesting thing is that the screens are being manufactured by Samsung, LG, and Sharp. I wonder if LG got the IR problems worked out in enough time to contribute to these 13" panels.

Ordered mine from France on the 5th of August, received it the 21st of August, Samsung display:), felt releived, perfect screen so far, won't bothered running any tests. If i notice burn in at some point then i will react.

Apple should annonce as soon as possible that they are now shipping Samsung displays only untill LG's are fixed.

Du you think it's safe now to buy an rMBP and get an Samsung or is there still many LG-screens floating around?!

From the online Apple Store?

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so it is an LG display built in: Week 6 (February) or week 33 (August).

After 8 days, here it is.. IR... i had an appointment arranged in an Apple store... i'll let u know...

robot6 wrote:

Du you think it's safe now to buy an rMBP and get an Samsung or is there still many LG-screens floating around?!

From the online Apple Store?

I think there's still some uncertainty.

Even if they'll fix the LG issue(s) I think I'll be reluctant to keep LG. I _do not_ trust LG in anyway. I had really bad experiences with LG in the past and I will not give one more cent to them.