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    MBP screens? Is it a bad time to buy?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by mhx, May 4, 2008.

  1. mhx

    mhx Notebook Consultant NBR Reviewer

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  2. Sam

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    That seems to be an extreme case. I wouldn't worry about it.
     
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    bigspin My Kind Of Place

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    I also have penryn MBP & No problem so far(I got it last month ....maybe poor batch of LED screen?)
     
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    hav no problem with mine too. it's less than a week old though.
     
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    I've had that happen to me once when waking my MBP up. All I had to do was close and open the screen once to get the backlight back to normal and haven't had this happen to me since. Should I be concerned about this?
     
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    If it happens again :)
     
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    I have the same problem on my new Penryn MBP (one week old), and I wonder if I return it or not, because it's maybe only a software problem. It could be due to bootcamp or EFI software : for me it only happens when I reboot on Mac partition after having used Windows (I have 2 partitions : one for Mac OS, one for Windows XP SP2).

    It never happens when I reboot from Mac to Mac or from Mac to Windows. But my machine is very recent, so I can't be sure that the problem is exclusively linked to the switch Windows/Mac.
     
    sinbad21, May 6, 2008
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    I haven't really noticed that on my machine. Certainly not as severe. If I hide the dock, change to an all white background, and turn the brightness all the way up, I can sort of make out a faint representation of the link posted by the OP.

    But as you can see, it never really interferes with my daily use (seeing as I have to do all the above to even faintly notice it)

    Might just be a psychological effect :p
     
    asmallchild, May 6, 2008
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