display!

It appears the same display model may have been used in many of the 17" Powerbooks and the 17" iMacs that were made around the same time, though a few displays from other manufacturers might also come down with vertical lines.

gidnitacs asks:

"btw, does anyone know whatever happened to the same issue with the 17" powerbooks?"

Apple is still stonewalling.

My fathers iMac 17" G5, purchased October 2005 Serial W8439, has just recently developed this wonderful vertical blue line that everyone else seems to have here.
I feel really bad as he didn't take out the extended warranty as I told him not to bother as I'd never known a Mac to go wrong!
How wrong I was!
I've traced this Mac to the Shanghai plant and it seems to be where most of these faulty Macs are coming from so there is obviously a fault/quality control problem here.
Which begs the question..... Have the workers at this plant been Shanghaied?

P.S. I also brought an iPod that again comes from China. When I got it home and took it out the box and peeled the plastic off the front I discovered a lovely big scratch running across it! Of course I couldn't take it back to where I brought it as who would believe it came like that and that I hadn't done it?
Apple are you taking notes?

Sorry the Serial Number is W8539 not W8439 as I just wrote!

Me too! W8545!

Now not only do I have many coloured lines, mainly on the right side of my monitor, there is a shaded block as well!!

Hi Bugger
Can you tell your location I am curious since here in France Apple attitude has never been too generous for its customers...

My screen just started turning yellow. I do not have a line though. I did just buy a cheap keyboard to plug into the computer...my wireless was being a pain and the batteries would drain really fast! At the same time I bought a new keyboard, I moved it into the bedroom. This is when the screen started acting up. Does anyone have any input? Do you think it is the keyboard, or maybe a faulty power circuit in the other room? I did just change it and brought it back out in the front room...it is still turning yellow and jumping now. NICE.

One vertical purple line appeared today on my iMac G5 iSight.
Serial starting with W8546...

Update: No more lines on my G5. Looked at replacing the screen here in the UK at a cost of £534 for parts only. On the basis that I can get a brand new Dell 17" for £90 I consider that spare price to be a major rip off.

I've tested an external monitor and it works fine, no lines at all.

I will now probably buy a 24" dell for about £100 less than the apple spare and use that as my monitor on the iMac. That way I get a nice large workspace for less than the price of the spare.

By the way both of the Dell monitors have three year warranty as standard.

Finally got my second line today - beautiful cyan. Thank you for caring Apple.

Also, I ended up buying a 22" LG monitor for just £20o, which works fine and is great vfm.

Mine has 6 lines now. Spoke to them too, they said that if there are a lot of users with the same problem sending in their imacs, they might consider an extended warranty program. He can't comment how many though. I asked if we fix it now and Apple decided to extend the warranty later, can we get a refund. They said we can write in for a refund but no guarantees. I think Apple is getting too big and arrogant, not caring about their customers. I just bought a HP Compaq laptop, should have stuck to PCs instead of this integrated all-in one expensive mess.

We have three lines now - yellow, blue, magenta. We are very upset that apple won't do anything about this. We are W86...

as of 09 october 2007, my iMac G5 display have 33 vertical lines.
already changed the LCD Panel twice!!!

15 jun 2007
and
9 july 2007.

im from singapore.
serial no W8546

hey, i am from Jamaica. i got 20 very terrible color lines on my imac screen, it is just 1 yr old. We all need do something about Apple Company!!!