MacBook Pro 15" Grainy Matte Display

I returned my MacBook Pro today after making a big fuss in the store about the grain issue. To anyone I say take a look at a Sony Vaio FE Series screen and compare it to the MacBook Pro. The MacBook Pro's screen is not good. I previously returned a MacBook because the one fan it has was driving me crazy. I couldn't do anything processor intensive without the notebook sounding like it was going to take off.

Anyway. It's kind of sad that I ran out of options. Today I ordered a Lenovo ThinkPad that will be arriving tomorrow. I would like to use Apple products again; however, I am super picky with notebooks and their current line does not met my personal standards.

I spray a glass cleaner onto a utility towel (which does not leave any mess behind), and it works fine. This is what a guy at the Apple Store reccomended to me. No damage to my computer. Looks great afterwards.

yes, that's it. On a good quality, 8 bit display it would be completely smooth and all colors would show.

My MacBook Pro has a Perfect Screen.
I am wondering why are you getting that upset ans still keeping it.
The problem is just your MacBook (and some other) . Why don't you give it back instead of complaining and keeping it ?
Apple will give you back either a new one or your money.

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Yeah I'm running Windows XP on the MacBook Pro 15" when I see the problem. Yeah I've heard that the grain is not that noticable in Mac OS X because the drivers for mac os x are different. This fact even more proves the point that the problem is more related to drivers, not hardware.

I also returned mine today. The woman I spoke with did not seem particularly concerned about why I was returning it. I just have to pay shipping to get it to California for them to process the return.

I explained my issue with sparkliness and how the whites had a sort of rainbow effect, and she listened politely, but I don't get the sense, since they're all like this, that more than just a few of us think this is an issue.

I'm going to stick with my old Powerbook for now. Not sure what I'll do if more than the hard drive is broken, nor when the day comes when I actually need a new computer...a MacBook perhaps, though it would be nice to have a real graphics card, all in all frustrating.

Had sending back my MBPC2D17" matte on Tuesday too, received it on Monday, called the applestore for the display and the guy said to me we are sorry for the inconvenience.
Today I call Apple France to know if they will upgrade the quality of the display, the rreponse was there's no known problem concerning the display, and finally said to me "have you seen the performance of these machines ?" I answered that I pay 3000 dollars for stability and quality (like my pb 17" does) until i'll go to the pc market .....

A new low quality stuff is here at Apple. Low quality, high price, great communication.....

I never thought i would do this but I too am looking at other laptops as the current apple offer doesnt' meet my standards and apple is clearly avoiding the problem. if they would make a statement that they are aware of the issue and working to fix it, then i might have made a decision to buy them. i hate it as i have used apple products since they came out and i was a kid in high school. i expect much more from apple, as i feel most people do. what happened?

anyway, the issue is clear if you go to the apple store. it is on the matt and the gloss finish of the 15 inch and i didn't notice it on the 17 inch but it might be there. i will check two more stores tomorrow on the east coast. also, one can notice the lower priced macbook doesn't have the problem. so you pay more for a defective display.

I'm sitting here on a new Compaq laptop and the glossy widescreen has the same grain as all the MBP's C2D I've seen. Seems to be a common trait these days with laptops, not just MACs. But my iBook 1Ghz G4 has a mint screen!

Not sure why there are few people saying that with WinXP the grainy-ness looks worst. I have Boot Camp installed and reading text on WinXP is "way" better than reading on the OSX. Please try it! This threat is long enough, do the test, read it on both, WinXP (IE) and OSX (Safari). You will see that on Win XP text looks crisp and clear, almost like there's no pixels.

On antoher note, I have the office crapy Dell Latitude D810 with an ATI X600 - 128 MB RAM and the darn thing can go up to 1920 x 1200 pixels. Really sharp for pictures and videos. Like someone said previously... "I thought Apple's machines were for high-end graphics." Doesn't look like to me.

I switch to MAC last year and that was the first thing I noticed when I got the machine that claims to have a 256 MB RAM. Well, where is that sharp resolution?

I've sent my 1st generation MBP machine back to service for several issues that I'm not going to discuss on this threat, but the last thing was the amount of dead pixels on the screen. Apple Care replaced the screen, but now the grainy-ness is worst! I've purchased movies and music videos from iTunes and when I got my machine back from service this last time and played a few music videos, that's when I hit the roof. The picture quality is worst than ever and trying to view those purchased videos on full screen, forget it! I'm calling the "product specialist" again to find out what are they going to do this time.

Don't get me wrong, I like the OS, I like the product, but my concern is why a 256 MB video card gives such a crappy resolution?

Cheers!

MBP 2.0 Ghz Core Duo Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Is your resolution maxed out?

Try setting it to the max resolution...

1440 x 900 in the Display preference and see if that helps?

hmm. that's annoying... are you near an apple store that you could bring it in to contrast and compare?

i did struggle with which display to get and ended up w/ the matte one...

I' ve read from other forums ( http://www.notebookforums.com/thread173555.html) that the same grain issue appears on other PC laptop screens with ATI Mobility X1600 graphics card aswell. Asus provided a bios update for the card, and it resolved the issue!

When is Apple going to release a bios update? This is very embarassing to Apple, which advertises its computers to be made for media people working with graphics etc. We have been waiting for a fix for almost a year now. I can't use my MacBook Pro for work because the graphics quality is appalling. The grain appears even on the Mac OS X. I'm very disappointed.