MacBook Pro Retina display burn-in?

Do you exhibit IR hanpil ?

Thanks for the reply.

It still seems quite risky to buy late 2013 retina macbook pro, cause if there is still LG displays out there, it means there might be still IR defect on these displays.

I definitely would not want to buy a lottery retina macbook pro which may cause me trouble like the last retina macbook pro I bought and then refunded after.

I "WANT" to buy one...but man the display thing has me worried of course. Funny thing is though I have my laptop hooked up to an external monitor like 90% of the time so I don't think the IR would bother me because I'd only have to possibly deal with it 10% of the time...

I'm almost now considering buying the Mac Pro and then getting an 13" air for portability and then just remote into my Pro.

Wish we had some more feedback from people on these "RETINA" displays on the latest MacBook Pro refresh from this month.

I've been using my new Haswell machine with the LG panel for the past weekend and still haven't had any signs of IR despite having windows/UI elements stuck in the same positions for very long periods of time. And that's using fullscreen mode in Photoshop where you can blank out the entire screen to any color/pattern you want to easily catch any IR.

It seems that the only people posting that have received LG panels are new retina owners like me. I think until a previous LG retina owner gets a new retina w/ a LG panel to compare, then this issue can be put to rest.

From reading through a good chunk of the most recent posts, it seems that the IR evident on the previous LG panels is easily triggered.

With a thread this huge and so many repairs/replacements occuring, it would be unlikely for Apple to not to try address this in the latest revision. They've done similar things in the past where they silently fix/address a problem in the next revision of a product and never publicly state there was a problem to begin with. They did that with the first 12" Powerbooks which overheated to the point they warped cases, and in the 2nd revision redesigned the thermal cooling, and some other examples that I experienced myself, but don't recall at the moment.

Just a FYI.

I picked up on Friday a 15", 2.6, 16gb, 1tb ssd.

Here is the display info.

LSN154YL01-A01

DLM337202RZFF0PAN

Best Regards

Is this a 13" or 15" you picked up??

Also, I've seen a SLEW of people complaining about trackpad/keyboard "freezing" issues with the new 13" rMBP as well.

Ugh! I just "want" to pull the trigger but just can't feel comfortable about it for some reason. I want a 15" maxed out machine but for 3k+ I want it perfect! Again, just one of the reasons I am considering buying the PRO and then an AIR for portability as needed.

And what's the verdict on the machine so far?

krnorth wrote:

Also, I've seen a SLEW of people complaining about trackpad/keyboard "freezing" issues with the new 13" rMBP as well.

This could be Mavericks related. I'm getting lots of trackpad freezing and scrolling strangeness with Mavericks on my mid-2012 15" Retina MacBook Pro.

Hello

I have the retina 13 inch mbp late 2013. I just did the image retention with the grid and thank god no ghost in here. I can see a little bit the grid when I move quickly my head but this is not as bad as I've seen on the internet.

My display model is 0000A020 according to colorsync.

Then if it's true that the macbook 13" has only a LG display, they have corrected the issue or Samsung is also providing screens.

Cheers

@optimysticguy

How did you do to have the information "LSN…" with the new macbook pro haswell? What's the terminal command?

I want to know if i'm LG or Samsung display.

Thanks!

At this point, it is looking like there are at least two manufacturers of LCDs for the late-2013 13" model. We have seen A018 and A020 as possible LCD models in this machine. We still don't know which is which, though. And without people who own the late-2012 or early-2013 models of 13" posting their ColorSync model data, we know even less about their stories.

-- Nathan

krnorth wrote:

And what's the verdict on the machine so far?

Regardless of anything you've read to this point. From what I've read here, nothing is known yet, other than a few people have purchased and are happy. That doesn't mean anything as there's been plenty of people that have had no IR show up until months later. Passing the test out of the box doesn't prove anything.

Now I admit, if there's still no IR reports by next summer with the new mbpr's then perhaps Apple may have straightened it out quietly as someone else suggested they've done before.

For me though, I'm not convinced anything has changed regardless of the optomiistic posts by people simply based on their screen lottery good fortune, and I'm waiting patiently.

Late 2013 13" rMBP

2.8 Ghz i7/16GB/512GB

Manufacturer: 00000610

Model: 0000A018

I'll let you know if I discover any IR problems.

15" 2.3 16GB

Manufacture 610

model A019

Terminal test

Color LCD

LP154WT1-SJE1

LG here everything here looks great. Colors are fantastic.

I calibrate my display for my Lightroom & Photoshop . I set the white level to 110 cd/m2 to match my eizo display the screem is very uniform. I not conserned about IR if there is a problem down the line I got apple care.

Unfortunately, I finally found someone to post proof that it's still going on. I asked them to prove it is a late 13" and that it has IR. It's really a bummer, it makes me not want to buy it anymore.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qCPYJnsWbuo&feature=youtu.be&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3 Fv%3DqCPYJnsWbuo%26feature%3Dyoutu.be