Q: MacBook Pro Retina display burn-in?

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.

I posted here before... I think I missed putting the build week. Week 31 lg with ir issues. Sent back and new one on it's way.

Samsung week32 - all good

After crying like baby in the apple store , I managed to replace my macbook pro

ended up with Samsung screen , seems muchhhhhhhhhh better than my old S$$$ LG

thanks guys you are great ..thx once again for the info , keep updating will test the new machine again

screen info     >  SN: Week 47

Color LCD

LSN154YL01001

DLM22850241F49GA4

Never again will I buy a first-gen Apple product.  I went into the local Apple Store, and they said they'd order a display immediately but need to keep my machine for 'testing'.  I'm a Software Developer, I need this thing for work.  Every day.

Calling Apple Care was no better, I got a sympathetic rep (Derek), but a manager who insisted there was nothing to be done outside of bringing it back to the store or mailing it in.

Apple has seriously damaged their reputation in my eyes.  Assuming the rest of the laptop market will follow with high-res IPS displays (hopefully not made by LG), I won't be buying a Mac again.

Week 29 w/ LG Display.

Last update of faulty or perfect display stats before going to sleep:

LG week unknown (5x)

LG week 23

LG week 26

LG week 23

LG week 29 (2x)

LG week 30

LG week 31

LG week 32

LG week 33

Unknown week 24

LG week unknown

LG week 29

LG week 33 (2x)

Samsung week unknown

Samsung week 32

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.

LG week 32 with IR and yellow screen.