MacBook Pro Retina display burn-in?

If you have the money then by all means please go ahead, order five or even ten if you like and pick the best out of it. The thing is that not everybody can afford to do that and it is a big inconvenience to us when we get replacements that are faulty and/or still having issues. I'm bringing my rMBP in for a repair next week due to the bad squeaking sound on few of my keyboard keys plus i will ask them to inspect my chatbox text ghosting issue and the bad scrolling lag in safari + spaces. Good luck in your rMBP purchase, i hope you do get a Samsung screen with your orders.

I have the LG LP154WT1-SJA1 screen. Build 1054 of week 23 (June) . As mentioned, I am having no IR issues.

Regards,

Mike

shayster98

Since I need a laptop for school, and I don't have time to order multiple over and over again before school starts, I think I might order two or even three today, and then hopefully at least ONE can be a Samsung. I can then return the others.

Been wonderig about two things, first being with Apple setting up some standards for determining what consitiutes a valid claim of this issue. Second how to deal with customers that purchase multiple units only to return them. I've not seen any refurbished MBPr's online, so have to wonder what happens to these laptops?

Type what is shown below into the terminal window and press enter. You will see which screen you have.

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

I have the LG LP154WT1-SJA1 week 29 (July) and I can easily see IR when testing for it, BUT i can't seem to replicate this problem when I am on "Recovery Mode" (Restarting after pressing Command+R). I simply can't see any IR at all there, even if I leave a black bright screen for minutes and then move it on the gray background. This looks to me like some weird energy settings. Also, the screen behaves in a oddly manner, the lower botton of the screen leaves a pixelated trail when I move a window, this doesn't happen on the upper half of the screen. Again this odd bahaviour only happens on the "Recovery Mode", I don't get the pixelated trail on the normal boot scree, but I do get the IR...

Sounds like there is more to it...

Anyway, the screen is great overall,and the retention doesn't last more than 20 seconds, maybe 30 seconds at most. Did you notice any other issues with the LG panel compared with the Sansung, like resolution (small fonts resolution...)?

Best!

Thanks I know that code that you enter in terminal but I want to know about the weeks because the user "stecube" posted a list of faulty and perfect panels of lg and Samsung and said: Ex. lg week (30) (3x) , Samsung (also 30) (2x) so I'm confused because the serial of retina MacBook Pro that I want to buy is also week 30 so I DON'T KNOW IS IT SAMSUNG OR LG (I don't want to buy it. Find it lg, and then come back to apple to change it

Thanks

By the way I want to point that I still didn't buy the retina MacBook Pro retina so I'm asking about the weeks

Hey all! Wow this has become a huge thread!

Three questions that I have seen threads to but can't quite understand

1) what does 'IR' actually Stand for?

2) what and how does one do the checkerboard test

3) can anyone find that list of weeks that lg and Samsung batches were faulty?

Thanks in advance and sorry to ask. These forums are extraordinarily hard to search and navigate through!

The reality is this: a lot of customers are not going to notice this, because they don't know what to look for. If we (the subscribers to this thread and others on the subject) are placated, this will all die down and a lot of people will happily continue using their crummy LG-display-carrying rMBPs in blissful ignorance. However, if this issue starts getting more press in the wider media, a whole bunch of people are going to start checking their machines and complaining, and Apple will have an even larger, more expensive problem on their hands. Nip it in the bud now Apple, if only for the sake of your bottom-line.

Regards,

Peter

Indeed, what do you suggest to have more users knowing about these problems?

1. Ir stands for image retention

2. Set your background for the darkest grey of the solid colours available in settings. Put a picture on display (can be a webpage like google search or anything with range of text and colour, or use black and white checkerboard), leave picture up for 5-15 mins, then minimise it, see if you can still see the text / checker on the grey background.

3. From what I have seen on this forum, Apple are using mixed manufacturers in all weeks, so you can't guarantee whether you get LG or Samsung for any week. Most LG ones seem to have the problem right away, or in first few weeks no matter what week they are from even including week 32/33 which are the latest ones off the line.

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.

If this doesn't help you I have no idea what it is you are asking for.

MTFR wrote:

By the way I want to point that I still didn't buy the retina MacBook Pro retina so I'm asking about the weeks

I didn't buy it too. I'll wait untill something official will be posted by Apple.

I'd really like to see if they're as good in admitting errors as they're in having public events or in making videos full of frippery.

Sorry but simply I don't have the RMBP and I want to know if its lg/Samsung without buying it (lazy about buying it then returning it to apple if lg)

This forum is soo helpful so thanks

MTFR wrote:

Sorry but simply I don't have the RMBP and I want to know if its lg/Samsung without buying it (lazy about buying it then returning it to apple if lg)

I don't think you can. The serial number doesn't tell you that, just the build week and other specs.