Dead Pixels on Mabook Pro with Retina?

To be honest, I would ignore it if its just 1 pixel. You're likely to go and get it replaced and find more on the replacement display. I have over 3 on my MacBook Air display and I just ignore them, if you have many dead pixels on one spot of the display then I would definitely get it replaced. Btw please check attached apple pixel policy, this may have changed since the retina came out. http://www.geek.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/apple-display-dead-pixels-580x391 .jpg looking at this, apple would replace it if you have 4 or more stuck pixels and 6 dead pixels.

When you are using the machine for photo editing or any sort of visual design, one dead pixel is too many.

Even though its a Retina display? You can barely see those pixels.

Yes. They are very obvious when the screen shows black.

That's interesting... Oh well, I hope you guys get your monitors sorted. Btw what's the chance of getting a monitor without a dead pixel these days? Every monitor / laptop I have purchased has atleast 1.

It's kinda like playing the lottery. Im just lucky I got a samsung with my retina display macbook pro.

A few days after discoving a group of dead pixels, I have another group appearing... great. (I origianlly thought it was only 1 dead pixel, but then I realized that on a retina display, Apple claims to have 5 million pixels on a 15 inch model. I wouldn't see be able to see 1 dead pixel... the fact that it's visible means it has to be A LOT more than 1 pixel.) Now it's showing up in more than one spot. I'm afriad to have this screen replaced and end up with an even worse screen! Or a saga of 4 screen replacments like some have had to go through.

Update: Just turned my rMBP in to get the screen replaced. Very little hassle, just had to wait for the parts. All covered under warranty.

How long did it take for those pixels to grow? Btw the pixel density is not as good as the iPhone or iPad. You should be able to see 1 pixel if its dead or stuck if you look close enough. I have one at the moment at the bottom of the screen which is not bothering me at all, but I hope it doesn't get worse... And also i've got a samsung panel, I really hope I dont have to replace it because I was lucky to get it 🙂

What panel do you guys have? You can find out by running the following in the terminal window.

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

LSN = Samsung

LP = LG

Got an LG panel and first noticed a stuck (white) pixel smack in the middle of the screen about 2 months after purchase. Short time later, I found a cluster of stuck pixels.

Meanwhile I've got 4 hot spots, three smaller ones that are 2 pixels big and a big cluster that looks to be about 4 or 5 stuck.

@caseyfromnj - there's two reasons I have not gotten the screen replaced yet. One is I've got work to do and can't really afford downtime. The other is, I wanted to wait a bit to give Apple a chance to figure out what the problem is, and replace my screen with one where that has been taken care of, so I don't end up having to replace another screen.

By this time, I am pretty sure they've got plenty of bad screens returned so I'll replace as soon as work allows.

OMG dude I feel for you. That must really suck, I hope my samsung display is going to stay as is with just 1 dead pixel. It would suck if i see anymore. Nikolaus you should get your screen replaced and hopefully you end up with a samsung unit.

LOL good idea. I doubt apple would fix this issue though, their retina display techonology seems very premature. Im hoping to see a press release come out officially from them to hear what they are going to do with all these failures.

I ran the terminal command, and I have the Samsung screen :/ Guess I'll schedule an appointment with the genius bar... so lame.

Ah that ***** Casey, I would have thought samsungs panels would have been better quality. Please let us know how it goes.