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How long does it take for the Retina Macbook Pro screen to "burn-in"?

This might be a stupid question, but bare with me.


I left my Macbook Pro Retina Display 13 inch sit on my desk for probably about an hour and a half (maybe more, maybe less). When i left i didn't close the lid because i thought it would go to sleep by itself. However. it didn't. For that whole time the screen was on at roughly half brightness. Is this an issue? In that period of time could the screen have "burned-in"?

Posted on Oct 7, 2014 8:54 PM

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Oct 8, 2014 8:38 AM in response to bday19

bday19 wrote:


...In that period of time could the screen have "burned-in"?

I guess the answer is another question: did it burn in?


If you can't see the image that was on the screen during that period when something else is on the screen, then it didn't. It's not good practice to leave it that way if you can shut it down or put the screen to sleep but I think another variable is how bright you set the screen to operate and half brightness isn't very bright, which is a good thing.

How long does it take for the Retina Macbook Pro screen to "burn-in"?

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