MacBook Pro Retina display burn-in?

"did not meet my expectations" they said this to me as well. Very poor choice of words under these circumstances. my response was, "I'm sorry you are so misinformed".

I think that's by design, part of the UI.

After 3 customer service reps, a senior advisor and a sales rep, I've decided to return and wait for them to resolve the issue. I was on the phone with them for 1 hr and 6 mins. They did all the tests and still IR. The senior advisor said that they won't give me an advanced replacement since its not really a problem, thats it common with these high end screens. Since this is my only laptop, I'm ok parting with it until the problem is resolved. Just hard to let it go after seeing such magnificent screen.

itsamacthing,

I am talking about the COLOR BANDING in the shadows. Can you can notice the abrupt transation between the shades in the Shadows in your display? Is it a Samsung or LG?

Thanks!

……They must forget to advertise it. 😐

Exapandin,

I have calibrated the LG display and the IR didn't change a single bit. Actually right now I am noticing a worsen IR. After just a FEW SECONDS there is IR already, but it doesn't take long to disappear, less than a minute. If you push your GAMMA too high it will make the display look darker and therefore you won't notice the IR too muc, but it is there and can easily be spoted. If you lower the gamma too much it will increase brightness and the same will happen, both solutions are bad for people working with graphics, videos, photos..

And after a few tests it seems this display is not even a 8-bit display, just a 6-bit with bad color banding issues. It looks really bad...

hi i just thought i would (kindly) mention that the command to check display mfg'er on that http://m.tuaw.com page is not correct, you need to use html entities for the left angle brackets (<) or it gets cut off. At least I assume that's the problem. well, if whoever put it up is still watching this thread at least, otherwise, i guess posting that here won't do much good.

I believe that the C02 just indicates the factory at which it was built. In any case, all the MBA 2012s that I've seen all have a serial number starting with C02. Three LGs and three Samsungs.

I do not think that the serial number gives any clue as to the brand of screen in an rMBP or an MBA.

I have received my new mac (2.3/8/256) yesterday and its and LSN Samsung screen. I am very happy with it. No dead pixels or something else. And yes my serial number starts also with C02. 🙂

But my keyboard is bit weak. Dont know if its normal cause it is my first macbook.

Io non credo, i dont believe that all LG have IR,but a small precentual. Since Apple meight have selled millions of MBPR and most are LG and not SAMSUNG and maybe 200 or more people noticed IR, and many others have no IR with LG, so its right to say, calm down, everything will be right

Last night was the first that i had to use my rMBP

It is a custom build 16/2.7/512 and my heart sank when i went to the terminal to find it was a LG screen

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I have done the checkerboard test though and cannot see any traces of IR

should i carry on checking to hope they "fail"

Cheers

High-Death wrote:

And after a few tests it seems this display is not even a 8-bit display, just a 6-bit with bad color banding issues. It looks really bad...

With regards to your original post, with the picture, I spent some time looking closely at a white window over the dark grey background. There is definitely a halo of banding surrounding the window on my LG panel. It's pretty clear that the gradual fade of shadow around the window has banding. But I don't know if the panel is to blame or if the rendering of the shadow is banded during the render (i.e. they don't use a very smooth shadow effect). I don't have any other Macbook to compare against and this is my first Mac so I don't know if that's normal or if it is an artifact of the panel, or if it has something to do with the way that the scaling to 1920x1200 is being done. But it's definitely noticeable on close inspection, whatever the cause.

EDIT:

At the lowest resolution setting (1024x640) the banding is very, very obvious because the bands are so wide.

If anyone is new to this discussion and do not want to read the overwhelming number previous posts, I've constructed a webpage.

It will summarize the issue, determine if you have the issue, and give you solution methods.

http://www.cyneticsoft.com/mbpretina

And for others, I'm soon going to be collecting data so I can do some analysis on this matter.

It will be on the same webpage. I'll update you when it is available for submitting info.

Cheers!

Excellent point!

Hopefully, most people here have enough common sense to calibrate their monitors.

Screen brightness is such a subjective thing unless you measure it.

Personally, I have my screen brightness set at about 80% of max when it's on battery power only. If my computer is powered, I turn the brightness all the way up.