MacBook Pro Retina display burn-in?

Received my Haswell 15" 2.3/16/512/750M today.

Very happy to see the LSN display serial

No yellow gradient either...

much better experience than the 3 rMBP I returned last year to get a samsung. are we seeing a patter here that everyone is getting samsungs with Haswell?

I picked up my 15" 2013 MBP (top spec) and it's Samsung/LSN as well. Seems like they are all Samsung so far?

The color tone looks the same as my first gen LG display (good), no tinting, and defintaly no IR to be found. Very happy so far. (Except that Bootcamp is totally busted, but that's another issue...)

God I hope my 13" arriving tomorrow doesn't have IR.

Let us know. (:

Okay, so the computer came in today. I transfered my files, and you know how that little white box for the initial computer setup sits on top of a grey backdrop? Well, that box had sat there for about 40 min on medium brighness while my files transfered, with some periodic sleeping and re-waking of screen, and when I went to look at the IR test website, I didn't even have to show the black and white checkboard; the box from the setup window was retained and very visible on the grey backdrop of that website. My wife could totally see it too, so I'm not just nitpicking.

Strange thing is, after running the checkboard test for 10 minutes, we could only see a faint amount of the checkers retain, and strangest yet, they were only visible in the retained image of the box from the setup window and not anywhere outside of it.

This is pretty upsetting. I really don't want to go though the hassle of trying to get the geniuses to replace it, since I couldn't even see the checkboard test, and their test is way easier to pass.

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airikh wrote:

This is pretty upsetting. I really don't want to go though the hassle of trying to get the geniuses to replace it, since I couldn't even see the checkboard test, and their test is way easier to pass.

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So what are you going to do? Return it? Keep it? You know that if you keep it you risk not failing the test later if the image retention is not severe enough. 15-inch? 13-inch? Could you paste the display model number? How it the colour? Good colour? No yellow-tint? No yellow gradients?

By the way, I know what you wrote after "I'm not just nitpicking." I saw it in the e-mail. Did you remove that sentence or is someone else editing these posts and removed that sentence? I've learned to watch my language here because I've been editing before for saying something bad.

So what are you going to do? Return it? Keep it? You know that if you keep it you risk not failing the test later if the image retention is not severe enough. 15-inch? 13-inch? Could you paste the display model number? How it the colour? Good colour? No yellow-tint? No yellow gradients?

By the way, I know what you wrote after "I'm not just nitpicking." I saw it in the e-mail. Did you remove that sentence or is someone else editing these posts and removed that sentence? I've learned to watch my language here because I've been editing before for saying something bad.

I'm going to return it. I bought a refurbed 11" Air just now. I used the one I bought for my wife, and I really liked it.

I ran the checkerboard for 10 minutes, and now I saw the checkers plain as day.

It's a 13" model. I don't know how to get the display number on this model. In fact, I didn't think there was a way to determine it, like there is a serial number for the 15".

To me, the color is perfect, and there is no tinting or yellow gradients.

Good luck with whatever you end up doing. I just think it might better for me to hold off until they bring a retina screen to the Airs. That will be really nice. A 3.5lb computer is really not all that portable.

And no, I didn't eddit my post. Someone must be watching for stuff like that.

Can you help me with the Terminal command? I just picked up the base rMBP and the command I have used from the beginning is coming up with nothing. I have never had a problem with this and now it looks as if they have removed it but you were able to retrieve it. Please help. Thanks!

lel62 wrote:

Can you help me with the Terminal command?

ioreg -lw0 | grep "EDID" | sed "/[^<]*</s///" | xxd -p -r | strings -6

13 inch or 15 inch? Might only work on 15 inch.

I appreciate it but it simply says color lcd. I have the 15 also! This is crazy. Any ideas as other people are able to do this??? Thanks in advance.

ioreg -lw0 | grep "EDID" | sed "/[^<]*</s///" | xxd -p -r | strings -6

Color LCD

Larrys-MacBook-Pro:~

I copied and pasted this to show you.

lel62 wrote:

I appreciate it but it simply says color lcd. I have the 15 also! This is crazy. Any ideas as other people are able to do this??? Thanks in advance.

Tell us about your display. Is there image retention? Is it yellow tinted? Are there yellow gradients? Does the case creak when you press down around the trackpad? Are there stuck pixels or muras?

Maybe someone else in this thread like Chris Yates will tell us the new command to use.

There is a slight bit of very faint yellowing on the bottom right and left. Very small amount but its visible. No bleeding colors seem pretty decent. Don't have a calibration tool to see if I can remove the yellowing but it is better than some previous version I have had in the past. It seems to look more like the LG but I never had any yellowing on the LG's before so I can't figure this one. Strange thing is, when I first went to the terminal and pasted the command, it made me download developer tools. It said if I was using strings that I must download the tools and I never had this happen before. I have had several of these over the last year so this is very odd!!!

lel62 wrote:

There is a slight bit of very faint yellowing on the bottom right and left. Very small amount but its visible.

You tested for image retention?

Its clean. None.

Hi.. I'm from Italy and I'm still waiting to buy a MPr 15" since the first came out, like a lot of you I think are doing.

Can anyone who just purchased the new 15 Haswell one tell me if the problem is solved?

This situation is terrible for customers. I remember when Jobs used to apologize the manufacturing faults....

There are a lot of problems in Italy and I need a powerful laptop for work. I saved the money for a lot of time despite the political crisis of my country.

Maybe I need to "Think Different"... Different from Apple

The terminal command is the same as the one you posted I'm using the 15" and that's how I got my screen details.

Just to mention that I have had no IR whatsoever and that included the time when I was transferring all my data with the white box and grey background which eventually took approx 13 hours, not a hint of IR.

As mentioned about the colours they are much much better on the Samsung, similar to that of the LG without yellowing. As I said the yellow gradient is very mild.