MacBook Pro Retina display burn-in?

LG week 24 faulty

Quick update of faulty or perfect display stats:

LG week unknown (8x)

LG week 23

LG week 24 (2x)

LG week 26 (4x)

LG week 29 (2x)

LG week 30

LG week 31 (2x)

LG week 32 (2x)

LG week 33 (2x)

Unknown week 24

LG week unknown

LG week 26 (3x)

LG week 29

LG week 33 (2x)

Samsung week unknown (2x)

Samsung week 30 (2x)

Samsung week 32

Samsung week 33 (2x)

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.

LG Week 30 Faulty

LG Week 32 Faulty

Further to reporting LG week 31 as faulty, I called AppleCare and they would have sent me a box to do a replacement, but said they thought replacement might have same issue. They also had no idea you could identify panel manufacturer without disassembling the laptop, so I pointed them at this thread and the TUAW posting from yesterday.

Ghosting does not seem too bad to me and I don't really want to be laptopless for a couple of weeks, so I asked them to make sure this issue logged for my laptop (it is), and I asked them to encourage Apple to take a public position on this issue, either discounting it or saying it is an issue and fixing it.

If they have no idea, then how come Samsung screens are the only ones on display at the Apple stores?

itsamacthing wrote:

If they have no idea, then how come Samsung screens are the only ones on display at the Apple stores?

Not sure the AppleCare people have all the info, and even if they do I don't know that they would be 100% transparent about it?

Interesting that Apple Store display units all have Samsung panels. If that is really true?

I wonder if there is a color profile that helps the LG panels? Time to get my old Spyder out.

I believe Apple should be ashamed of them self's , almost 5K dollars for a machine ,

A recall on all LG batches is the right approach.

After 2 replacements I can confirm so far that Samsung panel seems much smoother , better , superior brightness

I have tested 5 Apple stores and all of them have Samsungs. I invite all of you to go up to your local Apple store and check.

Profiles don't help, it's a weak band aide. You will still have contrast issues and brightness problems.

Your right about Apple Care

At te apple store here in delaware 2 of the 3 I tested we're LG models

I have MBP Retina, Mid2012

week23

LG Screen

Color LCD

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I have noticed the screen ghosting ever since the 1st week of my using MBP (late june 2012). I agree with people here that the ghosting happen quite quick (15 minutes) of screen staying in one place. Typically it happens if I have a lot of white screen open (safari, email, chat, terminal) and it looks very obvious in DARK background such as the screen saver, or my dark screen wallpaper.

I noticed the ghosting typically stay on the screen for at least 30 mins, sometime more, but I think not more than an hour. After that the ghosting dissapear.

Kinda ***** that I will have to return this to apple. Its the hassle that bother me more than anything. But for $2K+ laptop, I may have to suck it up.

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That's interesting .. Test a few of the non retina if you can

In 2009 MacBook pro 15 1440x900 there is NO IR.

In one hp dv6 no IR

In one netbook asus no IR

In one 17" screen no IR

In my rmbp with Lg screen... IR

Oh, in my iPad 2 there is also IR

Not at all. I guess it depends on which machines the store got. The Apple Store near me probably has rMBPs with LG panels since I can really easily produce IR on them, though, I really didn't check with Terminal commend.

The worst case of IR I saw from these LG panels is with faint color on it. I mentioned from my previous post. I went to the Apple Store last Saturday, opened Safari browsing webpage, and had a short (< 5mins) conversation with their employee. Then, I showed him the IR by spreading a guesture with thumb and three fingers.

Originally, I returned my first two rMBPs by demostrating Google logo IR to the Genius bar. Those IR images came with only light gray and yellow color. None of them have obvious color like what I saw from the demo machine on Apple Store last Saturday.

But I rather believe that would only happen on those first bad batch. What I concern now is if my LG would get worse over time or not. Since no one in the Apple could confirm this information right now.

Did you check your watch for IR? :)