I was thinking of ordering an rMBP, but after reading the ridiculous number of horror stories, I'm not so sure anymore. It's not likely that I will receive a model with the display from Samsung, and I cannot have multiple laptops sent to me so I can test their displays and return them to Apple. I need one computer that would come before school starts, so I can install all the required software. I'd expect that to come in working order, with the display looking impeccable, and the speakers sounding great, but most importantly, everything functioning like a NEW, perfectly normal computer. This kind of build quality that I've been reading about in you guys' discussion is far below Apple's standards.
I have noticed something strange also; there are TWO main threads about this topic. That's perfectly normal, but what isn't is that the other thread talks about what's a SOFTWARE issue. It's not ghosting, but rather some puzzle-piece screen tearing type problem (anyone who has ever paused AVCHD video in VLC will know what I mean). That problem is obviously a software one because they were able to take screenshots of it. So, are there TWO ISSUES? One about ghosting/IR problems where whatever's on the display lingers, and a software issue where the screen doesn't render the scaling properly after sleep? If so, problems with the computer after I buy it could be even worse than I thought.
For those who haven't gone through that thread, I urge you to read through that, or, if you're feeling lazy, at least start around page 3 - 5 to the end because that's where everything really is. And if you have an rMBP, which I think I'm the only one in this whole discussion who doesn't 😀, then telling us if you've had any of those software-related bugs would help. The people in that thread, and other websites, seem to say that installing Mountain Lion or a "MacBook Pro Mid 2012 Graphics Stability Update" fixed their software related tearing/graphics rendering issues. For some reason, I think I remember that nobody in that thread really mentioned the huge problem here, the ghosting image retention problem, which is obviously the hardware. Sorry for the long post, but I'm just so confused as to why people in this thread or the other haven't noticed BOTH problems together, and I'm just at a loss to whether I should order one or not, because I don't have the time to return it and get another one if something's wrong.