MacBook Pro Retina display burn-in?

Well just checked the serial of my RMA01 and it says it is a week 33 manufacture, but can't see information on the manufacturer of the screen, suppose I will have to wait until it arrives (it is 3 weeks after my previous week 30 unit I sent back)

Hello,

For your ammusement I would like to describe what I have been asked to do today regarding my image retension problem by Apple "Technical Support". I talked to 3 different 'techs' and here is what they ordered:

1. Restaring the machine with CMD+ALT+P+R
2. Starting it in recovery mode
3. Running Disk utilities and "Repair Disk" (im sure it affects screen grately)
4. Reinstalling Mountain Lion (which came with computer I got today).

Then I was informed about the nearest Apple Authorised Service.

It's really pathetic and sad. And I paid for this machine 4000$ in Europe (base 2.6 model)!

Though I'd chip in with my 2 cents and experience.

I just checked the display manufacter and mine is an LG display from week 46 of production.

I did the Checkmark background test several times and nothing surprising or irregular happened. There's no IR, ghosting or anything wrong with the display.

Overall I'm very, very happy with the computer and it was more than worth the cost 🙂

Hope this helps some for stat tracking

Quick update:

LG week unknown (5x)

LG week 23

LG week 30

LG week 32

LG week unknown

LG week 33

LG week 46 <--- you sure it's from week 46?

Samsung week unknown

Samsung week 33

That's what it says here:

http://www.powerbookmedic.com/identify-mac-serial.php

Using my computer's serial number. Otherwise how do I check the week? Thanks in advance 🙂

airjordan12345 wrote:

That's what it says here:

http://www.powerbookmedic.com/identify-mac-serial.php

Using my computer's serial number. Otherwise how do I check the week? Thanks in advance 🙂

http://www.appleserialnumberinfo.com/Desktop/index.php Top left corner for serial input

Quick update of faulty or perfect display stats:

LG week unknown (5x)

LG week 23

LG week 30

LG week 32

LG week unknown

LG week 29

LG week 33

Samsung week unknown

Samsung week 33

Find out your build week: http://www.appleserialnumberinfo.com/Desktop/index.php Put the serial in the top left corner bar

Find out your display manufacturer: Open Terminal, copy & paste:

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

and then press Enter. If the result starts with LP it's an LG, if it starts with LSN it's a Samsung.

There we go 🙂

Week 29 (July). I was wondering why that other site said week 46 when this one actually came with just OS X Lion 10.7...

Still it's an LG because the command line script returned LP + numbers. All is fine here though 😀

airjordan12345 wrote:

There we go 🙂

Thank you, I edited the previous post.

Hello,

I went to that website (http://www.appleserialnumberinfo.com) and it says that my rMBP was built on "Week 2 (January) or week 29 (July)".

What does that mean? Does it mean that the basic unit was built in January, but just with the parts common to all units, and the completely finished rMBP (i.e. with processor and RAM upgrades) was built in July?

In any case, the website got my processor details and my SSD capacity wrong. They got the RAM right though.

I hope this helps.

Cheers,

Peter

First rMBP:

Week 24 - Assumed LG with IR and a "bright spot" on the screen (sent back before we had a way to detect screen mfgr)

Second rMBP:

Week 26 - LG with IR

I just received my rMBP from Amazon. It was built in week 30 and has got an LG screen. Until now i haven't noticed any strong IR (i could barely see it after a 20 minutes IR Test). My screen is perfectly white, if not even a little bluish, not yellow as reported by some other users.

If the IR gets any worse i will get a replacement but if it doesn't, this unit is perfectly fine.

Another update of faulty or perfect display stats (I didn't count NNEU's display yet, one way or the other):

LG week unknown (5x)

LG week 23

LG week 26

LG week 23

LG week 29

LG week 32

Unknown week 24

LG week unknown

LG week 29

LG week 33

Samsung week unknown

Samsung week 33

Find out your build week: http://www.appleserialnumberinfo.com/Desktop/index.php Put the serial in the top left corner bar

Find out your display manufacturer: Open Terminal, copy & paste:

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

and then press Enter. If the result starts with LP it's an LG, if it starts with LSN it's a Samsung.

I have a week 33 LG with IR. I don't believe the hypothesis that post-week 33 units are necessarily fixed yet. I have a second replacement still in Processing ****. It is scheduled to arrive next week. I'll report back.

JMF wrote:

I have a week 33 LG with IR. I don't believe the hypothesis that post-week 33 units are necessarily fixed yet. I have a second replacement still in Processing ****. It is scheduled to arrive next week. I'll report back.

Haha me too, a replacement in shipment, due on 17th.

week 33 LG, no IR.