MacBook Pro Retina display burn-in?

Being Chinese manufactured has little to do with it, and Apple has been outsourcing there long before the iPhone. Sony still does final manufacturing and QA of many of their high end laptop lines in Japan of all places. Yet they fall apart like anything else, especially the displays at the hinge on the Z series. And dealing with Apple is a walk in the park by comparison to Sony.

Probably the most comparable laptop line to MacBooks as far as professional grade laptops is Lenovo's ThinkPad line, and they've always been made in China.

The rMBP display issues sound like engineering problems to me, not manufacturing problems. These are the first full size laptops to use the optically bonded displays, and I think LG (a South Korean company no less) is just having trouble with the tightly engineered tolerances necessary for a display of this magnitude of pixels in such a compressed space. As noted above, the Samsung color shift isn't a whole lot better.

Um... I posted a link to a petition regarding this issue. It is now removed.

Am I breaking the rules for wanting Apple to notice this widespread problem?

For wanting Apple to notice what you think is a widespread problem? No.

For posting a link to a petition? Yes.

That's a shame!! anyway I have signed it just now! I hope people have received the link in their email and they also do the same thing. cause the email with the link still exist!!

and there is something wrong with this forum. the number of people visiting this forum used to 470,000 last week, now it is just 660!! they are trying to change the statistics and pretend that this problem is just one minor simple problem and no one cares about it!!! Apple *** big time!!

I got to it before it was removed and did a foreword to about 200 people. Apple can't hide from this one. People are starting to take notice. I've already discouraged a couple of people from making the jump to retina.

This is not freedom of speech!! Apple cannot withstand to face the truth. It is like a dictatorship here!! I don't know what the forum admins are thinking!! Resetting the forum viewers from 470k to zero is like assuming all those viewers were unvalued and they don't care about what people think and they just want to hide the truth!!! I've started hating apple little by little!!

You're right about the count. Unbelievable. That is really crappy.

I also have now decided to wait before buying based on this issue. I was hoping the 13" would be good but it isn't.

It'd be cool if a whole lot of people who are not buying based on this issue would post that fact on here.

Nobody's stopping anyone from speaking out freely. It's just disallowing content in a moderated discussions forum with a Terms of Service agreement.

How about the forum count? why they want to lower the number of people who have viewed this problem? Doesn't that mean that they are afraid of their 13" selling rate? come on!! these are some obvious facts that apple tries to run away from so that they can just sell more of their crappy retina displays to people who don't know about this issue! by lowering the number of viewers from half a million to zero they just wanna prove that only a bunch of people who had this problem kept nagging and replying 5200 times among themselves and the problem is not widespread which is absolutely not true!!!

Further, I find it pointless to attempt to get a giant corporation to change their business tactics, those that yield the most profit for themselves. You might as well not waste your time and either return/refund or not purchase their products.

Like someone mentioned earlier, I don't find it quite appropriate to deliberately convince people not to buy a product with user-defined "problem" that may not even be a problem to these people. It's only a problem if it's a problem to the person, no? Ie.) Most may not find a problem with their hair or clothes, but if it distresses me nevertheless, it is still a problem. To me.

If one doesn't even notice the IR or mura and tinting, with normal everyday use, but only finds it when he/she comes across this thread, it probably wasn't a problem from the beginning, no?

Just my 2 cents.

No one that matters looks at this silly discussion. I assure you, there must have been a far more mundane reason for them to reset the view count.

I'm following this purely out of entertainment value now.

Whoa there with the hasty generalization.

We may not know if Apple deliberately reduced the count. I'm not even sure if resetting the count on a thread is even possible. For all we know, the thread's view count just reached a cap and reset to 0. Obviously 700 views with 6000 replies is not very smart of them.

RoozbehB wrote:

How about the forum count? why they want to lower the number of people who have viewed this problem? Doesn't that mean that they are afraid of their 13" selling rate? come on!! these are some obvious facts that apple tries to run away from so that they can just sell more of their crappy retina displays to people who don't know about this issue! by lowering the number of viewers from half a million to zero they just wanna prove that only a bunch of people who had this problem kept nagging and replying 5200 times among themselves and the problem is not widespread which is absolutely not true!!!

you are one of those 500k viewers who are neglected by the company that you worship!! If there was not a problem they wouldn't accept to change the display. If there was not a problem they wouldn't be afraid by the number of people who have viewed this page. This way they are pushing themselves out of the first pages of google search and people might not know the problem exist and they continue buying overpriced crappy retina displays! I've read a guy had sold his kidney to buy a rMBP and turns out to be defective!! please at least respect the people who understand and searched for this forum and spent time reading it. not to disregard them!! these are the customers and customers rule in the business!

I just returned my 3rd 15" rMBP on Friday. Unfortunately while this time I lucked out and got a Samsung display, the chassis kept making loud squeaking sounds which sounded more like a cheap $250 Acer than a $2200 all aluminum MBP (and much worse than my 2007 plastic MBP which been through ****). I decided to try the 13" rMBP but after using it for 2 days I am afraid it will not work for me so it is going back. I really do need an 15" rMBP and really want to give Apple $2200 of my hard earned money but my trust in AppleCare to do the right thing eventually and replace displays with IR it is all gone now and yea, resetting the statistics to have this thread draw less attention certainly doesn't help...